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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
- Thomas Huxley
#Creed
#Science
#Suicide
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas Huxley
#Authority
#Great
#Knowledge
#Rejection
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
- Thomas Huxley
#Common Sense
#Nothing
#Science
#Sense
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
- Thomas Huxley
#Follow
#Nature
#Nothing
#Sit
#Will
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
#Art
#Believe
#I Believe
#Science
#Wisdom
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
- Thomas Huxley
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#Me
#Morning
#Power
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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
- Thomas Huxley
#Fear
#Friends
#Hope
#Political
#Results
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
#Make
#Teach
#Try
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
- Thomas Huxley
#Earn
#Great
#Happiness
#Peace
#World
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
- Thomas Huxley
#Believe
#Faith
#Learned
#Man
#Science
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
- Thomas Huxley
#Against
#Away
#Everything
#Time
#Truth
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Huxley
#Begin
#End
#Fate
#New
#Truths
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
#Generation
#Land
#Ocean
#Stand
#Unknown
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
- Thomas Huxley
#Always
#Imagination
#Limits
#Probability
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
#Happy
#Life
#People
#Sad
#Unhappy
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- Thomas Huxley
#Errors
#Harmful
#May
#More
#Than
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
- Thomas Huxley
#Learn
#Order
#Right
#True
#Truth
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- Thomas Huxley
#Danger
#Dangerous
#Knowledge
#Man
#Who
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
- Thomas Huxley
#Literature
#Science
#Sides
#Things
#Two
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
- Thomas Huxley
#Game
#Nature
#Rules
#Universe
#World
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
- Thomas Huxley
#Consequences
#Fools
#Men
#Wise Men
#Wise
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- Thomas Huxley
#Consequences
#Done
#Good
#Mind
#World
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
- Thomas Huxley
#Importance
#Right
#Who
#Wisdom
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
#Authority
#Blind
#Faith
#Knowledge
#Sin
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
- Thomas Huxley
#Brainy
#More
#Patience
#Tenacity
#Worth
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
#Brainy
#Ladder
#Long
#Man
#Rest
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley
#Beautiful
#Common Sense
#Science
#Ugly
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- Thomas Huxley
#Best
#Common Sense
#Logic
#Science
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley
#Beautiful
#Great
#Science
#Tragedy
#Ugly
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas Huxley
#Everything
#Learning
#Something
#Try
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