Quotes by : Thomas Huxley

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

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making....

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

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

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly....

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize....

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more....

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.