All Thomas Huxley Quotes
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley
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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Thomas Huxley
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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.
Thomas Huxley
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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.
Thomas Huxley
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
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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.
Thomas Huxley
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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
Thomas Huxley
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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
Thomas Huxley
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Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Thomas Huxley
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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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