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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Written by Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Written by Thomas Huxley
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Written by Thomas Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Written by Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Written by Thomas Huxley
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Written by Thomas Huxley
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Written by Thomas Huxley
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Written by Thomas Huxley
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Written by Thomas Huxley
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Written by Thomas Huxley
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Written by Thomas Huxley
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
Written by Thomas Huxley
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.
Written by Thomas Huxley
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Written by Thomas Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Written by Thomas Huxley
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Written by Thomas Huxley
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Written by Thomas Huxley
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.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Written by Thomas Huxley
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.
Written by Thomas Huxley
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Written by Thomas Huxley
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Written by Thomas Huxley
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
Written by Thomas Huxley

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