Quotes from Thomas Henry Huxley

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

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

Try to learn something about everything.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

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

Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

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

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

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