“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Government by average opinion is merely a circuitous method of going to the devil; those who profess to lead but in fact slavishly follow this average opinion are simply the fastest runners and the loudest squeakers of the herd which is rushing blindly down to its destruction.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“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 Henry Huxley
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“The motive of the drama of human life is the necessity, laid upon every man who comes into the world, of discovering the mean between self-assertion and self-restraint suited to his character and his circumstances. And the eternally tragic aspect of the drama lies in this: that the problem set before us is one the elements of which can be but imperfectly known, and of which even an approximately right solution rarely presents itself, until that stern critic, aged experience, has been furnished with ample justification for venting his sarcastic humor upon the irreparable blunders we have already made.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“The whole of modern thought is steeped in science; it has made its way into the works of all our best poets, and even the mere manof letters, who affects to ignore and despise science, is unconsciously impregnated with her spirit, and indebted for his best products to her methods. I believe that the greatest intellectual revolution mankind has yet seen is now slowly taking place by her agency. She is teaching the world that the ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment, and not authority; she is teaching it to estimate the value of evidence; she is creating a firm and living faith in the existence of immutable moral and physical laws, perfect obedience to which is the highest possible aim of a intelligent being.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“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 Henry Huxley
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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the “anticipation of Nature.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Science is, I believe, nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Books are the money of literature, but only the counters of Science.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true orfalse.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
