Thomas Huxley Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.”

“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”

“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”

“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”

“There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.”

“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.”

“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.”

“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.”

“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.”

“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”