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
duty east hunger learn mental order satisfy unable wind
Learn what is true, in order to do what is right, is the summing up of the whole duty of man, for all who are unable to satisfy their mental hunger with the east wind of authority.
inspiring freedom men
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
wisdom writing men
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
dog eye men
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
men thinking ideas
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.
men feelings given
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
science men want
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
animal intelligent men
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.
dream science men
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
men benefits slavery
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
men sin blunders
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
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.
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.
stupid men giving
What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.