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Thomas Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was an English biologist and educator known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his fierce advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. A gifted writer and speaker, Huxley championed scientific education, coined the term "agnostic," and fought to make scientific knowledge accessible to ordinary people.

“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”

— Thomas Huxley

Science

All Quotes by Thomas Huxley

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

— Thomas Huxley

Great

“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

Wisdom

“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”

— Thomas Huxley

Politics

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

— Thomas Huxley

History

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

— Thomas Huxley

Time

“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

Science

“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

“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

Nature

“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

Knowledge

“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

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

— Thomas Huxley

Work

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

— Thomas Huxley

Knowledge

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

— Thomas Huxley

Best

“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

Nature

“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”

— Thomas Huxley

Science

“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”

— Thomas Huxley

Money

“Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!”

— Thomas Huxley

Religion

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”

— Thomas Huxley

Learning

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

— Thomas Huxley

Equality

“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