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

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

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

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

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

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

Misery is a match that never goes out.
Thomas Huxley

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
Thomas Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Thomas Huxley

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

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

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Thomas Huxley

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

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

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Thomas Huxley

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas Huxley

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Thomas Huxley

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

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