Thomas Huxley Quotes

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Huxley

The 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

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Thomas Huxley

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Thomas Huxley

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Thomas Huxley

It 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

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Thomas Huxley

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Thomas Huxley

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Thomas Huxley

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Thomas Huxley

The 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.

Thomas Huxley