The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. — Thomas Henry Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. — Thomas Henry Huxley
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. — Thomas Henry Huxley
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error — Thomas Henry Huxley
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one’s own way at all hazards. — Thomas Henry Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! — Thomas Henry Huxley
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. — Thomas Henry Huxley
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal — Thomas Henry Huxley
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. — Thomas Henry Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. — Thomas Henry Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation — Thomas Henry Huxley
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit — Thomas Henry Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit — Thomas Henry Huxley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in nature. That is an article of exclusively human — Thomas Henry Huxley
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely — Thomas Henry Huxley
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be.. — Thomas Henry Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. — Thomas Henry Huxley
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious… and I despise myself for the vanity — Thomas Henry Huxley
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that — Thomas Henry Huxley
I protest that if some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right — Thomas Henry Huxley
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness — Thomas Henry Huxley
