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
art teaching rome
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
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.
teaching people intellectual
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.
education teaching care
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
nature teaching self
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
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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.
medicine woes
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
truth lying science
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
inspiring freedom men
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
harmful held truths
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
begin fate
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
beautiful great hypothesis science tragedy ugly
The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
giving doubt unqualified
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.
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To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.