More from Thomas Henry Huxley

  1. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, wh…
  2. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
  3. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
  4. History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions; and, as matters no…
  5. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
  6. The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious-fabricated, on the one hand…
  7. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, has its application to nations; and it is futile…
  8. Science ... commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

All Thomas Henry Huxley quotes