Thomas H. Huxley
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
Thomas H. HuxleyIt is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas H. HuxleyThe world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas H. HuxleyThe strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
Thomas H. HuxleyThoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Thomas H. HuxleyMake up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas H. HuxleyScience is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas H. HuxleyThere is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Thomas H. HuxleyThe deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Thomas H. HuxleyScience ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas H. HuxleyPerhaps 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.
Thomas H. HuxleyScience is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
Thomas H. HuxleyI have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
Thomas H. HuxleyOnly a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.
Thomas H. HuxleyGod give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
Thomas H. HuxleyIt is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
Thomas H. HuxleyOnly one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
Thomas H. HuxleySit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas H. HuxleyScience comits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas H. Huxley
