Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – 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
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. – 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
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. – Hans Urs von Balthasar