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
The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. – Thomas Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley