Thomas Huxley Quotes - Page 6

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• Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

  Thomas Huxley

  Friendship, Appreciate, Noble

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• The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

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  Life, Success, Trust

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

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• The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers.

  Thomas Huxley

  Philosophy, Feelings, Poachers

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

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  Men, Objective Truth, Produce

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

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• The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.

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  Determination, Lying, Men

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• The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

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  Suicide, Argument, Guinea

  Review in the Daily News on October 17, 1871. "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley". Book edited by Leonard Huxley, Volume 1, p. 452, 1900.

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• For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

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  Reality, Sea, Weakness

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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• I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

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  Charity, Littles, I Can

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• True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.

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  Religious, Depth, Twins

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• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

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  Truth, Lying, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species'

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• Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will come out somewhere. If you go buzzing about between right and wrong, vibrating and fluctuating, you come out nowhere; but if you are absolutely and thoroughly and persistently wrong, you must, some of these days, have the extreme good fortune of knocking your head against a fact, and that sets you all straight again.

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  Next, Facts, World

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.

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  Strong, Science, Intelligent

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.277, University of Georgia Press

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• Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences... be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater.

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  Men, Hands, Differences

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 110, 1863.

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• [Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

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  Lying, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.106, University of Georgia Press

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• It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

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  Inspiring, Education, Littles

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

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  Education, Organization, Body

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews”, p.403, tredition

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• The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

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  Thinking, Authority, Appeals

  "\Rhetoric and Incommensurability". Book by Randy Allen Harris (p. 228), 2005.

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• I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men

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  Mean, Men, Fellow Man

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.79

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• Man's Place in Nature.

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  Nature, Science, Men

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• Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

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  Purpose, Credit, Moral

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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• If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.

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  Men, Play, Justice

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

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  Nature, Science, Natural

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• Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

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  Girl, Wisdom, Sweet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

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  Philosophy, Opposites, Fundamentals

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• It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.

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  Lying, Spring, Knowledge

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

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