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
graduation witty educational
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
science common-sense logic
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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.
science function accounts
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
inspiring freedom men
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
truth lying science
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
science technology two-sides
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
kings stones elohim
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.
drinking practice support
I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. There is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my part, I consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.
shooting rats able
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
science views trying
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
ladders off-to-college focus-on-goals
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.
apes bishops ancestor
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
different form existence
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.