T. H. Huxley Quotes

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

No social stability without individual stability.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

Words are good servants but bad masters.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

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

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Dream in a pragmatic way.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.