Thomas Huxley Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”

“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”

“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.”

“The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”

“Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.”

“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”

“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”

“Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.”

“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.”