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
men humanity fiction
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
trust time truth
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
blessed science voice
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
life mother method
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
suicide believe science
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
promise prophet messiah
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
life equilibrium inertia
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
mean men doctrine
The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity.
believe law world
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.
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.
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.
people cost adages
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
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.
stupid men giving
What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.