All Thomas Huxley Quotes
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
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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 or false.
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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.
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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.
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
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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.
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Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
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Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
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