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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