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
education country art
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.
education moving law
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
education country art
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
education teaching men
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
education law instruction
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
education organization body
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
education teaching care
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
inspiring education people
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.
inspiring education littles
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
education learning responsibility
I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.
education may impossible
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
education knowledge authority-and-power
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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.
beauty beautiful education
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.