Thomas Huxley
Thomas Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley PC PRS FLSwas an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 May 1825
thinking monkeys dirt
...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
thinking past people
Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.
philosophical gun philosopher
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
order
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
clever mistake people
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
girl wisdom sweet
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
passion self prejudice
Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.
bible self dogma
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
independent political independence
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
science superstitions birth
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
power genius gunpowder
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
beautiful sight world
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
nature teaching self
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
math may stuff
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.