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
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Learn what is true, in order to do what is right, is the summing up of the whole duty of man, for all who are unable to satisfy their mental hunger with the east wind of authority.
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Science is simply common sense at its best.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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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.
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
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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.
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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.