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Famous Thomas Huxley Quotes
“For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
“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.”
“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
“I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...”
“Science is simply common sense at its best.”
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.”
“Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.”