Quotes from Thomas Huxley

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

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

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 Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

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

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

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.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

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

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

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Science is simply common sense at its best.