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Thomas Huxley Quotes
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Famous Thomas Huxley Quotations
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English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
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- Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. Thomas Huxley »
- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley »
- God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. Thomas Huxley »
- I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. Thomas Huxley »
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. Thomas Huxley »
- Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas Huxley »
- It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. Thomas Huxley »
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas Huxley »
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. Thomas Huxley »
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Huxley »
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Thomas Huxley »
- Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. Thomas Huxley »
- Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. Thomas Huxley »
- Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. 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. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. Thomas Huxley »
- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. Thomas Huxley »
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Huxley »
- The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley »
- The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. Thomas Huxley »
- There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. Thomas Huxley »
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Huxley »
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