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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
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.
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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Thomas Huxley
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04 May, 1825
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29 June, 1895
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