Quotes By Thomas Huxley

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

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

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 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.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

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.

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

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

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.