Author Profile
Thomas Huxley
1825 – 1895 • English • Scientist
61
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesThe 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
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.— Thomas Huxley
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.— 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 doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.— Thomas Huxley
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.— Thomas Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.— Thomas Huxley
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.— Thomas Huxley
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.— Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!— Thomas Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.— 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
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.— Thomas Huxley
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.— Thomas Huxley