49 quotes by Thomas Huxley

“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.” — Thomas Huxley

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.” — Thomas Huxley

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“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

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“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.” — Thomas Huxley

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

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“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.” — Thomas Huxley

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

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

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“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.” — Thomas Huxley

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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.” — Thomas Huxley

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

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“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.” — Thomas Huxley

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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.” — Thomas Huxley

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“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

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

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