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
faith believe science
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
determination lying men
The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.
writing men hands
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.
truth humility fate
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
money reading book
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
giving faces facts
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
wise thinking hands
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
dream accomplishment path
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
education knowledge authority-and-power
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
perseverance men feet
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.
life success education
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.
leadership sports freedom
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
self-confidence mind acting
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
money lying doe
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.