Quotes By Thomas Huxley

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Misery is a match that never goes out.