Quotes from Thomas Huxley

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.