Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

English biologist

Lived from: 1825 - 1895

Category: Scientists Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 may 1825 Died: 29 june 1895

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  • All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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  • The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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  • A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
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  • Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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  • Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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  • The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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  • 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.
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  • Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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  • Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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  • The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
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  • Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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  • Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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  • If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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  • In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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  • 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.
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  • It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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  • It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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  • It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
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  • Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
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  • No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
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