Author: Thomas Huxley

Quotes

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

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

- Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

- Thomas Huxley

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

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

- 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

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

- Thomas Huxley

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

- Thomas Huxley

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

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

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

- Thomas Huxley

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