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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.


Thomas H. Huxley

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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