If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ... THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of t... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you h... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hum... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY If I may paraphrase Ho... 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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY [Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty o... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactl... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fou... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for ... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibilit... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY "Learn what is true in order to do what is right" is the summing up of the whole duty of man THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you ha... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gall... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, s... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in ... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterl... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY