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
life eye men
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
science function accounts
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
morning freedom science
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
infinite possibility
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
real self generosity
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
science technology two-sides
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
life knowledge action
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
work science facts
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
lying snakes records
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.
lying believe responsibility
It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'...
mean men hands
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
mean survival progress
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
brother equality human-equality
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
science sin blind
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.