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
truth lying science
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
harmful held truths
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
truth ideas may
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.
truth reflection light
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.
trust time truth
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
truth honesty heart
Veracity is the heart of morality.
truth-is mankind spread
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
men objective-truth produce
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.
truth men done
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
truth humility fate
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
running truth honesty
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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.
medicine woes
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
inspiring freedom men
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.