Quotes from Thomas H. Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.