Quotes by Thomas Huxley

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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

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

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas Huxley

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing...

Thomas Huxley

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Thomas Huxley

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Thomas Huxley

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Thomas Huxley

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

Thomas Huxley

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Thomas Huxley

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Thomas Huxley

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

Thomas Huxley

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Thomas Huxley

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Thomas Huxley