Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

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  Graduation, Witty, Educational

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

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

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  Religion, Atheism, Sin

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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.

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  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.

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  Life, Success, Children

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

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  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.

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  Determination, Past, Men

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

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• Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

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

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

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  Order

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

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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.

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  Life, Player, Games

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

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

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  Lying, Eye, Behinds

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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.

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  Peace, Ignorance, Ignorant

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

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

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

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

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  Giving, Faces, Facts

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

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• Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

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  Dream, Accomplishment, Path

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• Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

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  Money, Lying, Doe

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

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• Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. ... Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

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  Lying, Essence, Principles

  Thomas Henry Huxley (19??). “Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley”

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• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

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  Faith, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

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  Fire, Doubt, Atheism

  "T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator". Book by Cyril Bibby, p. 257, 1950.

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• Science is simply common sense at its best.

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  Motivational, Math, Science

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

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

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  Mistake, People, Making Mistakes

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

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• Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

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  Strong, Sex, Women

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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