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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

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

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

Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

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

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

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas Huxley

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas Huxley

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas Huxley

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

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

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

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

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 only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Thomas Huxley

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

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

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

Thomas Huxley

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

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

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

Thomas Huxley

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

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