Author: Thomas Huxley

Quotes

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

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

- Thomas Huxley

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

- Thomas Huxley

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

- Thomas Huxley

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

- Thomas Huxley

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

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

- Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

- Thomas Huxley

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

- Thomas Huxley

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

- Thomas Huxley

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

- Thomas Huxley

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