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
territory size doe
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
men sin blunders
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
poor magna-carta oppressed
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
titles agnostic appropriate
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
men humanity fiction
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
trust time truth
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
blessed science voice
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.
life mother method
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
suicide believe science
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
promise prophet messiah
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
life equilibrium inertia
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
mean men doctrine
The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity.
believe law world
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.
literature facts problem
In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.