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Thomas Huxley Quotes

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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) I 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 Quotes) In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) 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 Quotes) The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) The 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 Quotes) I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) 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 Quotes) Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one’s own way at all hazards  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins  (Thomas Huxley Quotes) The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand  (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
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