Thomas Huxley Quotes

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• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

  Thomas Huxley

  Graduation, Witty, Educational

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humility, Dignity, Argument

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• Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

  Thomas Huxley

  Order

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ladders, Off To College, Focus On Goals

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.304, Cambridge University Press

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• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Education

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Children

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• Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religion, Atheism, Sin

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• I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

  Thomas Huxley

  Bishops, Apes, Ancestor

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• Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

  Thomas Huxley

  Determination, Past, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspiring, Freedom, Men

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.407, Cambridge University Press

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• Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Suicide, Believe, Science

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Eye, Behinds

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• The birth of science was the death of superstition.

  Thomas Huxley

  Death, Science, Superstitions

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• We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

  Thomas Huxley

  Peace, Ignorance, Ignorant

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.128, tredition

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• 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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Player, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

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• I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Two, Religion

  "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan L. Mackay, 1977.

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• The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

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  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Knowledge, Authority And Power

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Giving, Faces, Facts

  Nature Vol. 149 (p. 291), January-June 1942.

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• The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, People, Making Mistakes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.166, tredition

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• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Business, Knowledge

  "Technical Education" (1877)

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• The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Humanity, Doctrine

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Logic

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Believe, Responsibility

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