If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Natures part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. – Thomas Huxley
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves dont get right. – Thomas Huxley
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. – Thomas Huxley
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. – Thomas Huxley
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. – Thomas Huxley
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. – Thomas Huxley
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. – Thomas Huxley
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. – Thomas Huxley
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas 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. – Thomas Huxley
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
