Thomas Henry Huxley quotes - page 7

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. View quote
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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. View quote
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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. View quote
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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. View quote
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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. View quote
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. View quote
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. View quote
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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. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed-from the inorganic to the organic-from blind force to conscious intellect and will. View quote
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Sacred customs, venerable dooms of ancestral wisdom, hallowed by tradition and professing to hold good for all time, are put to the question. Cultured reflection. View quote
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. View quote
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The extent of the region of the uncertain, the number of the problems the investigation of which ends in a verdict of not proven, will vary according to the knowledge and the intellectual habits of the individual agnostic. View quote
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But orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought. View quote
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I now propose briefly to... set forth. View quote
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Physiology, Psychology, Ethics, Political Science, must submit to the same ordeal. View quote
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Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. View quote
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. View quote
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The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious. View quote
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Once in a generation, a Wallace may be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified to wander unscathed through the tropical wilds of America and of Asia; to form magnificent collections as he wanders; and withal to think out sagaciously the conclusions suggested by his collections: but, to the ordinary explorer or collector, the dense forests of equatorial Asia and Africa. View quote
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