Quotes from 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.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peas cods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

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

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

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.

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

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

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

The birth of science was the death of superstition.