Thomas Huxley

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

— Thomas Huxley

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

— Thomas Huxley

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

— Thomas Huxley

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Thomas Huxley

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

— Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

— Thomas Huxley

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

— 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

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

— Thomas Huxley

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

— 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

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

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

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

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

— Thomas Huxley

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

— 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

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

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

— Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

— Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

— Thomas Huxley