The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Thomas Huxley

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

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
Thomas Huxley

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley

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

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

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

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
Thomas Huxley

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas Huxley

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

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

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