All Thomas Huxley Quotes
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Thomas Huxley
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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.
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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
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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.
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
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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.
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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.
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
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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
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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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.
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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.
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
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