Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
– Thomas Huxley
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
– Thomas Huxley
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
– Thomas Huxley
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
– Thomas Huxley
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
– Thomas Huxley
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
– Thomas Huxley
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
– Thomas Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
– Thomas Huxley
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
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
– Thomas Huxley
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
– Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
– Thomas Huxley
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
– Thomas Huxley
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
– Thomas Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
– Thomas Huxley
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
– Thomas Huxley
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
– Thomas Huxley
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
– Thomas Huxley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
– Thomas Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
– Thomas Huxley
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
– Thomas Huxley
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
– Thomas Huxley
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
– Thomas Huxley
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
– Thomas Huxley
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
– Thomas Huxley
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
– Thomas Huxley
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.
– Thomas Huxley
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
– Thomas Huxley
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
– Thomas Huxley
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
– Thomas Huxley
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
– Thomas Huxley
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.