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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
Born: May 4, 1825
Died: Jun 29, 1895
Every Great Man Science Truth World
Related authors: Ashley Montagu Charles Darwin Edward Jenner Erasmus Darwin Jacob Bronowski Jane Goodall Matthew Walker Richard Dawkins
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
Beautiful Great Science Ugly Fact Hypothesis Great Tragedy Tragedy
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley
Wise Logical Men Fools Consequences Wise Men
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
Man Brainy Rest Long Ladder Other Enough Rung Only Somewhat Higher Foot Never Put Him Enable Hold Meant
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley
Happiness Great Self-Respect Peace World Earn Seek Great Thing Much Thing
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Thomas Huxley
Wisdom Importance Who Right
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. Thomas Huxley
Patience Worth Brainy More Tenacity Weight Cleverness Than Twice
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
Work Nature Man Better Kind Indication Had He Part Head She Him Without Stimulants Brain Hand Did Any Cannot Mean Turn Worker
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Huxley
Business Generation Ocean Every Add Unknown Our Reclaim Possessions Solidity Something More Finite Known Intellectually Infinite Little Midst Land Stand Extent
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley
Great Knowledge Natural Every Rejection Absolute Advance Involved Authority
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. Thomas Huxley
Time Guidance Submit Own Way Take Hazards Surely
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
Wise Man Wise Man Honest Man Will Only True Doctrine Himself False Question Any Whether Which Ask Honest
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
Best Science Sense Logic Observation Merciless Simply Fallacy Accurate Common Common Sense
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
Beautiful Science Ugly Sense Fact Common Where Common Sense Organized Theory Many
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. Thomas Huxley
Hope Fear Political Changes Those Foes Results Friends Which Ever Hardly
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 doubting. Thomas Huxley
Myself Wise Fools Half Nothing Doubting Despise Once Those Plodding Plough Would Vanity Restless Having Content Am Go Were Stimulus Hand Ambitious Oh Which Formed Who Set
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. Thomas Huxley
Best Men Those Simply Make Sins Commit Fewest Blunders Who
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. Thomas Huxley
Faith Knowledge Natural Unpardonable Absolutely Highest Sin Blind Blind Faith Him Authority Duties Refuses Acknowledge Skepticism
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. Thomas Huxley
Freedom Will Master Benefit Emancipation Abolish More Without Than Double Slavery
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. Thomas Huxley
Bible Has-Been Magna Been Oppressed Poor
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. Thomas Huxley
Faith Man Science Believe Learned Verification Justification
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. Thomas Huxley
Truth Long Sense Run Only Long Run Common Common Sense
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. Thomas Huxley
Great World Fear Half Think Way Say Shadows Least Personal Which Unhappiness Binds Orthodoxy Spectre
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. Thomas Huxley
Experiment Observation Court Ultimate Authority Appeal
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. Thomas Huxley
Science Promise Prophets Messiah Many Even
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. Thomas Huxley
Science Sides One Thing Literature Thing Things Two
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas Huxley
Value Harmful Spirit More Scientific Errors Than Truths May Held Products
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