Quotes by : Thomas Henry Huxley

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our....

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of....

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to....

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of....

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without....

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have....

All organisms vary. It is in the highest degree improbable that any given variety should have exactly....

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those....