Thomas Huxley Quotes

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man’s place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.