Famous Quotes

Quotes by Thomas Huxley

• Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
• The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
• 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.
• The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
• 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.