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
math may stuff
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
independent political independence
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
science superstitions birth
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
nature teaching self
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
inspiring education people
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.
inspiring education littles
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
philosophical gun philosopher
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
order
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
clever mistake people
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
pain thinking evil
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
integrity believe hands
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
literature facts problem
In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.
may ordinary impossible
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.
thieves mankind murderer
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.