“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
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“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
Source: American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology
“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Source: Collected essays
“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
Source: Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
“There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.”
Source: A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Readings from Huxley
“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
Source: Man's Place in Nature
“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.”
Source: Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.”
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Collected essays
Source: Collected essays
“There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.”
Source: Collected essays
Source: T. H. Huxley on Education
Source: Huxley's Autobiography and Essays
Source: Collected essays
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Collected essays
Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
Source: Selected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Collected essays
Source: Method and Results: Essays
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Lectures and Essays
Source: Lectures and Essays
“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...”
“To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.”
“Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.”
Source: T. H. Huxley on Education
“People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.”