Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

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. - Thomas Henry Huxley

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

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. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents. - Thomas Henry Huxley

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. - Thomas Henry Huxley

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