Quotes by Thomas Huxley

"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."

"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."

"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth."

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."

"No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life."

"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."

"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."

"Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth."

"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."

"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy."

"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

"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."

"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."

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

"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker."

"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."