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 player law
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.
belief forgotten instinct
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
wise wisdom science
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
wise world sentimental
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
assumption chemistry physics
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
respect self world
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
inspirational life patience
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
things-in-life people unhappy
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
struggle science thinking
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
misery
Misery is a match that never goes out.
life success failure
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
integrity trying facts
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
science common-sense common
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
purpose credit moral
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.