Source: Man's Place in Nature
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Famous Thomas Huxley Quotes
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.”
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.”
Source: Collected essays
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Collected essays
“The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.”
Source: Collected essays
Source: Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Source: T. H. Huxley on Education
“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.”
Source: Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Source: T. H. Huxley on Education
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish
“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Source: Collected essays
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
Source: Collected essays
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews
“The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.”
Source: Collected essays
“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
“Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”
“Misery is a match that never goes out.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”
Source: Collected essays
“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
Source: Collected essays
“I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.”