Thomas Huxley Quotes

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Thomas Huxley 



Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Thomas Huxley 



Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Misery is a match that never goes out.
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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Thomas Huxley