Quotes from Thomas Henry Huxley

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

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

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

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

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

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

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

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