Quotes from Thomas Henry Huxley
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.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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 Henry Huxley
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Veracity is the heart of morality.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
- Thomas Henry Huxley