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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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Play, Individuality, Progress

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.76

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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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• 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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Art, Atheist

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

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• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Trust, Time, Truth

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.255, Cambridge University Press

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• No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Double Standard, Benefits

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.21

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• A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Freedom, Men, Able

  "Address on University Education" (1876)

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• To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Country, Art

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Teaching, People, Intellectual

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

  Thomas Huxley

  Children, Eye, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

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• If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Science, Law

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Dream, Accomplishment, Path

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Money, Lying, Doe

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

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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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Strong, Sex, Women

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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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• 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Infidelity, Modesty

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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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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata'

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• A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Powerful, Water, Thunder

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• Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life Is Too Short, Slaying, Oneself

  Athenaeum magazine, p. 498, April 13, 1861.

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• And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

  Thomas Huxley

  People, Absurd, Prove

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, University of Georgia Press

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• 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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Sin, Blind

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Perseverance, Men, Feet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley”

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Fire, Doubt, Atheism

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

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