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
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.
inspirational life patience
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
things-in-life people unhappy
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
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.
misery
Misery is a match that never goes out.
life success failure
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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.
science common-sense common
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
purpose credit moral
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
territory size doe
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
men sin blunders
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
poor magna-carta oppressed
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
titles agnostic appropriate
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.