Quotes by Thomas Huxley

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

"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."

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

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions."