Thomas Huxley Quotes

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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Huxley

Learning, Everything, Try

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

Long, Him, Enough

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Thomas Huxley

Money, Lie, Economy

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley

Good, Mind, Done

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Knowledge, Rejection

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.
Thomas Huxley

Power, Struggle, Thinking

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley

Nature, Game, Universe

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
Thomas Huxley

Nothing, Sometimes, Another

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.
Thomas Huxley

Nature, Nothing, Down

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

Science, Best, Sense

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, Nothing, Once

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, Makes, Injustice

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Science, Great, Beautiful

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.
Thomas Huxley

Sad, Life, Happy

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Huxley

Patience, Worth, Tenacity

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

Religion, Beautiful, Wise

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Power, Morning

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley

Knowledge, Dangerous, Danger

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley

Peace, Happiness, Great

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Men, Wise, Logical

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas Huxley

Science, Commits, Creed

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley

Authority, Ultimate, Court

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley

Life, Strength, Truth

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas Huxley

Work, Fact, Far

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 4, 1825

Died: June 29, 1895

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