Thomas Huxley Quotes

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.

If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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.