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
perseverance men feet
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
self-confidence mind acting
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
inspirational life motivational
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
mistake people making-mistakes
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
science function accounts
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
truth humility fate
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
money reading book
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
faith believe science
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
money lying doe
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
inspiring freedom men
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
determination lying men
The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.
truth lying science
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
friendship appreciate noble
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
science technology two-sides
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.