Thomas Huxley Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”

“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”

“The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.”

“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.”

“Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.”

“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”

“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”

“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.”

“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”

“The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.”