Thomas Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for…

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their…

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth…

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

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly…

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived…

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The…

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what…

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth…

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by…

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively…

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness…

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the…

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something…

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better…