01UndatedIf a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
02UndatedSit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
03UndatedEvery great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
04UndatedIf some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
05UndatedThe chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
06UndatedThe great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
07UndatedTolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
08UndatedMy business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
09UndatedPatience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
10UndatedThe rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
12UndatedScience is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
13UndatedScience reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
14UndatedFreedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
15UndatedProclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
16UndatedThe great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
17UndatedI take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
18UndatedTime, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
19UndatedThe improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
21UndatedThe scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
22UndatedIt is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
24UndatedThe only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.Thomas Huxley / quote ↗
