Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes on Progress
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Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Social progress means a checking of the cosmic, process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
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'Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt.'