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
real self generosity
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
science technology two-sides
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
life knowledge action
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
work science facts
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
lying believe responsibility
It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'...
mean men hands
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
mean survival progress
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
brother equality human-equality
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
science sin blind
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
beauty beautiful education
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
science common-sense logic
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
strong sex women
Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.
motivational science common-sense
Science is simply common sense at its best.
life success science
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.