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Thomas Huxley Quotes - Page 3

English - Scientist May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895

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

Possibilities, Wrong, Right

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

Good, Ocean, Politics

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

Science, Truth, She

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. Thomas Huxley

Truth, Better, Truth Is

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

Experience, World, Right

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. Thomas Huxley

Best, Men, Sins

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

Beautiful, Wise, Religion

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

Value, Products, May

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

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

Time, Truth, Everything

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

Brother, Equality, You

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

Beliefs, Instincts, Call

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. Thomas Huxley

Training, Eye, Child

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, Believe, Evolution

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. Thomas Huxley

Size, Nation, Grandeur

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

Wisdom, Art, Science

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

Life, Happy, Sad

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

Life, Science, Up

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

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

Nature, Purpose, Moral

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, I Am, Me

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Huxley

Business, Ocean, Unknown

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