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THOMAS HUXLEY The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part... THOMAS HUXLEY I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he... THOMAS HUXLEY Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. THOMAS HUXLEY Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and v... THOMAS HUXLEY I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which form... THOMAS HUXLEY Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow hu... THOMAS HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. THOMAS HUXLEY Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. THOMAS HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. THOMAS HUXLEY The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had... THOMAS HUXLEY I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning ... THOMAS HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t... THOMAS HUXLEY The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. THOMAS HUXLEY My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harm... THOMAS HUXLEY Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. THOMAS HUXLEY The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is ... THOMAS HUXLEY The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The mode... THOMAS HUXLEY The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but ... THOMAS HUXLEY The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an il... THOMAS HUXLEY Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. THOMAS 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 HUXLEY History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as supe... THOMAS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. THOMAS HUXLEY If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is ... THOMAS HUXLEY It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of makin... THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That... THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. THOMAS H. HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. THOMAS H. HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b... THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. THOMAS H. HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. THOMAS H. HUXLEY