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
Thomas Huxley quotes about
weed garden bird
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place?
trust betrayal lying
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
errors perfection evolution
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
misery
Misery is a match that never goes out.
titles agnostic appropriate
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
imagination limits probability
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
poor magna-carta oppressed
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
integrity trying facts
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
unfaithfulness
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
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.
thieves mankind murderer
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
six ordinary evolution
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being.
medicine woes
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
harmful held truths
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.