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Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes


An English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Here are some famous quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley.

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

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Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.

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The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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

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

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

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

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

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I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

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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.

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Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

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Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

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If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed I should close instantly with the offer.

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

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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. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.