Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Education
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Quotes by Thomas Huxley
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Education
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Happiness
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.
Education
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Happiness
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Education
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Life
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.
Education
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Wisdom
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
Wisdom
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Truth
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Wisdom
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Education
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Truth
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Truth
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Wisdom
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Wisdom
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Education
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Wisdom
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Life
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
Wisdom
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Education
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Wisdom
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Wisdom
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