Quotes by : Thomas Huxley

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

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom....

If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition....

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he....

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are....

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable....

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.