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Quotes by Thomas Huxley

"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady."
By Thomas Huxley
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"Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
By Thomas Huxley
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"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
By Thomas Huxley
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"I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."
By Thomas Huxley
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to"
By Thomas Huxley
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
By Thomas Huxley
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"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
By Thomas Huxley
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"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to wh"
By Thomas Huxley
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"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 N"
By Thomas Huxley
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"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
By Thomas Huxley
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"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense."
By Thomas Huxley
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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger."
By Thomas Huxley
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"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists."
By Thomas Huxley
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
By Thomas Huxley
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"It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involve"
By Thomas Huxley
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"God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me."
By Thomas Huxley
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to"
By Thomas Huxley
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"Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believ"
By Thomas Huxley
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"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."
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"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence."
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"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw rec"
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"The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
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"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
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