Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Humility, Dignity, Argument

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Bishops, Apes, Ancestor

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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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• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

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  Self Confidence, Mind, Acting

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.116, 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Lying, Eye, Behinds

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• I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teaching, Care

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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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• There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Sight, World

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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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• 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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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

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  Christian, Art, Atheist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.237, tredition

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• There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

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  Infinite, Possibility

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.236, Cambridge University Press

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• To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

  Thomas Huxley

  Eye, May, Facts

  "The Study of Zoology" (1861)

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