Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. Thomas Huxley More Quotes by Thomas Huxley More Quotes From Thomas Huxley Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. Thomas Huxley appreciatenoblefriendship Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. Thomas Huxley accountsfunctionscience 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. Thomas Huxley writingmenhands If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Huxley freedomleadershipsports Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas Huxley truthsciencelying 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. Thomas Huxley perseverancefeetmen Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. Thomas Huxley moneyreadingbook The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. Thomas Huxley appealsauthoritythinking Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! Thomas Huxley wisebeautifulchildren Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. Thomas Huxley two-sidestechnologyscience Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas Huxley self-confidenceactingmind A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric. Thomas Huxley realmenscience Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley common-sensesoundscience No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. Thomas Huxley double-standardbenefitsmen 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 Thomas Huxley i-caretermcare In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. Thomas Huxley twobelieveart I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. Thomas Huxley fashionmightbelieve 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. Thomas Huxley eyechildrenhands Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes. Thomas Huxley runninggivingknowledge 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. Thomas Huxley collegelooksknowledge
