Thomas HuxleyNothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (2011)… ▶372Time
Thomas HuxleyThe question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in natur… ▶372Humanity
Thomas HuxleyEvery philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. ✨ Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews.372Thought
Thomas HuxleyEcclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism, p.26361HopeTruth
Thomas HuxleySit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ✨… ▶373Truth
Thomas HuxleyEconomy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). Aphorisms and reflections351Reflection
Thomas HuxleyWhat are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attache… ▶373HumanityReading
Thomas HuxleyThoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Collected Essays, p.257… ▶351Thought
Thomas HuxleyThe medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.341DeathTruth
Thomas HuxleyWe live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of w… ▶374Hope
Thomas HuxleyScience is simply common sense at its best. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish364Sadness
Thomas HuxleySize is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.110, Library of … ▶376Reflection
Thomas HuxleyThe 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 Henry Huxley (1893). Se… ▶321Reflection
Thomas HuxleyI hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is … ▶365DeathReflection
Thomas HuxleyMy belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical id… ▶343HumanityLoveThought
Thomas HuxleyThere is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by w… ▶376HumanityReflectionThought
Thomas HuxleyThe 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. … ▶333HumanityPhilosophyReading
Thomas HuxleyTeach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thoma… ▶366Life
Thomas HuxleyIf individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). More Criticisms on Darwin,… ▶377Humanity
Thomas HuxleyThere is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.333Time
Thomas HuxleyThe saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very val… ▶344Thought
Thomas HuxleyThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.355Politics
Thomas HuxleyScience reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). Aphorisms and reflections345Reflection
Thomas HuxleyHistory warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ✨ The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species' (1880)334Truth
Thomas HuxleyFreedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.367LifeTruth
Thomas HuxleyThe 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 … ▶301Politics
Thomas HuxleyAnd you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ✨ Critiques and … ▶334Truth
Thomas HuxleyCommon sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reaso… ▶356ThoughtTruth
Thomas HuxleyOf the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxl… ▶367LifeTime
Thomas HuxleyPeople may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Hen… ▶323HumanityLife
