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.
motivational science common-sense
Science is simply common sense at its best.
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.
beauty beautiful education
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
work science facts
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
self-confidence mind acting
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
inspirational life motivational
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.
science function accounts
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
truth humility fate
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
money reading book
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
money lying doe
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
inspiring freedom men
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
determination lying men
The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.