Thomas Huxley Quotes

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Wisdom, Put

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

May, Truths, Errors

Misery is a match that never goes out.
Thomas Huxley

Goes, Misery, Match

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Thomas Huxley

Freedom, Master, Slavery

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
Thomas Huxley

Equality, Human, Brother

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
Thomas Huxley

Freedom, Care, Wrong

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Huxley

Truth, Long, Sense

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas Huxley

Money, Science, Books

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

History, End, Fate

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
Thomas Huxley

Thought, Agnostic, Took

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley

Often, Call, Forgotten

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Thomas Huxley

True, Learn, Order

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas Huxley

Science, Nothing, Sense

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Science, Beautiful, Sense

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.
Thomas Huxley

Faith, Knowledge, Him

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley

Life, Greatest, Making

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley

Time, Truth, Everything

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Thomas Huxley

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Thomas Huxley

History, Fashion, Young

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Fear, Personal

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
Thomas Huxley

Happiness, Good, Men

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
Thomas Huxley

Work, Nature, Mean

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley

Art, Science, Wisdom

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Thomas Huxley

Education, Body, Possible

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley

End, Fate, Begin

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 4, 1825

Died: June 29, 1895

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