Thomas Huxley

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah…

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the…

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and…

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world…

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and…

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may…

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth…

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as…

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified…

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely…

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

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense…

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science…

Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life…

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no…