Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

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

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

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

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.