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“In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.”

Quote by Thomas Huxley

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

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The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

This compilation includes Huxley's influential writings on science, ethics, and society, showcasing his contributions to the fields of biology and evolutionary theory. more

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Thomas Huxley, a British biologist, was a staunch supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution. Renowned for his research in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and philosophy, Huxley made significant contributions to the field of biology. He had a profound influence on science, not only through his support of Darwin's theory of evolution but also through his role as a science popularizer and advocate for science education. more

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“Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.”

Ifs Giving Should Running Chance Knowledge Genius Beats Guidance Foe Hollow Rockets Chances Are Explosives Gunpowder

Book:Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

Source: Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S

“Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.”

Men Should Believe Reason Facts Eye Strong Sex Women Justice Loss Careers Seeing Policy Capacity Males Average Equality Foolish Vigor Public Policy

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.”

Want Has Beens Stills Ideas Spiritual Law Science Found Natural Morality Comfort Foundation Lays Seeking Driven Craving

Book:Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

Source: Huxley's Autobiography and Essays

“Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.”

May Science Evil Voice Eternal Blessed Rage Secure Being Blessed

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”

Men Science Nature Natural Minutes Effects Objects Ten Rain Mere Sand Salt Grain Showers Puzzles Wisest Grains Of Sand Appliances Grain Of Salt

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”

Ifs May Book Starting Ignorant Observation Operations Faculty Quantity Definite Observing

Book:American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology

Source: American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology

“In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.”

Littles Philosophy Chance Sacrifice Temples Laboratory Sanctuary Experimentation Admission Scientific Method Purification

Book:T. H. Huxley on Education

Source: T. H. Huxley on Education

“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.”

Facts Government Form Politics Existence Society Masters Depends Members Claims Exclusive

Author:Thomas Huxley

“I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.”

Ifs Values Education Responsibility Learning Ought Authority Mere Shoulders Conclusion Scholar Laziness I Have Learned Tested Propose Thrust

Author:Thomas Huxley

“That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.”

Form Process Expression Products Survival Endure Cosmos Association Transitory

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley