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Thomas Huxley


English
May 4, 1825
Scientist
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Misery is a match that never goes out.


Thomas Huxley
Tags: Out Never Goes
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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.


Thomas Huxley
Tags: Make Does Nation
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.


Thomas Huxley
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.


Thomas Huxley
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.


Thomas Huxley
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It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.


Thomas Huxley
Tags: New End Begin
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?


Thomas Huxley
Tags: Knowledge Who Out
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.


Thomas Huxley
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley
Tags: Just Up World
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Thomas Huxley
Tags: Freedom More Than
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley
Tags: Our Often Call
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley
Tags: Will Which Only
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley
Tags: Never Only Other
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Thomas Huxley
Tags: History Make New
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
Thomas Huxley
Tags: Freedom Me About