The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. – 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
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. – 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