Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. – Thomas Huxley
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. – Thomas Huxley
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. – Thomas Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. – Thomas Huxley
The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. – Thomas Huxley
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. – Thomas Huxley
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. – Thomas Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley
Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth. – Thomas Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
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. – Thomas Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley
