Thomas Huxley

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which…

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach…

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother…

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right…

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them…

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as…

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to…

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as…

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed…

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion…

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact…

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of…

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to…

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try…

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by…