54 Quotations by Thomas H. Huxley
- 1. A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
- 2. Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grou ...
- 3. All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
- 4. Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
- 5. Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- 6. Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throw ...
- 7. God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
- 8. I cannot say that I am the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources. T ...
- 9. I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
- 10. I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly t ...
- 11. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
- 12. In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
- 13. Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- 14. It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That ...
- 15. It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits ...
- 16. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
- 17. It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions.
- 18. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
- 19. Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...
- 20. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degre ...
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