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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- 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.
- The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
- The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
- 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.
- The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
- The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
- The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
- The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
- The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
- 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.
- Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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