Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley PC PRS FLSwas an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 May 1825
struggle science thinking
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
thinking order speech
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
suicide believe science
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
belief forgotten instinct
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
assumption chemistry physics
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
respect self world
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
titles agnostic appropriate
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
science common-sense common
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
imagination limits probability
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
infinite possibility
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
truth-is mankind spread
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
poor magna-carta oppressed
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
territory size doe
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
promise prophet messiah
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.