Thomas Huxley Quotes & Sayings

“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.”

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”

“Learn what is true in order to do what is right.”

“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

“Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.”

“It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.”

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”

“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”