Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley
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 Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly 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