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Thomas Huxley Quotes - Page 3
English
-
Scientist
May 4
, 1825 -
June 29
, 1895
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
Thomas Huxley
Experience
,
World
,
Right
,
Things
,
Left
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Thomas Huxley
Best
,
Men
,
Make
,
Simply
,
Who
,
Commit
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley
Beautiful
,
Wise
,
Religion
,
Child
,
Teach
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley
Value
,
More
,
Spirit
,
Products
,
May
,
Than
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
Thomas Huxley
End
,
Fate
,
New
,
Begin
,
Truths
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
Thomas Huxley
Equality
,
Brother
,
You
,
Will
,
Human
,
His
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley
More
,
May
,
Errors
,
Than
,
Harmful
,
Held
Misery is a match that never goes out.
Thomas Huxley
Misery
,
Never
,
Out
,
Match
,
Goes
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Thomas Huxley
Science
,
Truth
,
Only
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
Call
,
Forgotten
,
Rational
,
Beliefs
,
Our
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
,
Child
,
Eye
,
Plan
,
Accuracy
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
,
Process
,
Believe
,
New
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
Thomas Huxley
Nation
,
Size
,
Make
,
Does
,
Grandeur
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
Good
,
Happiness
,
Man
,
Men
,
Enjoy
,
Take
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
,
Science
,
Art
,
Believe
,
I Believe
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
,
Sad
,
Happy
,
People
,
Unhappy
,
Never
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
,
Delusion
,
Up
,
Industry
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
,
Credit
,
See
,
Our
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley
Business
,
Facts
,
Try
,
Teach
,
Aspirations
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Thomas Huxley
Men
,
Fall
,
Inevitable
,
Difference
,
Note
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
Man
,
Wise
,
Wise Man
,
True
,
Question
,
Ask
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
,
Man
,
Brain
,
Better
,
Kind
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