5 Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes on Thinking

Thomas Henry Huxley quotes on thinking

6. The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

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34. 'Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt.'

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57. A small beginning has led us to a great ending. If I were to put the bit of chalk with which we started into the hot but obscure flame of burning hydrogen, it would presently shine like the sun. It seems to me that this physical metamorphosis is no false image of what has been the result of our subjecting it to a jet of fervent, though nowise brilliant, thought to-night. It has become luminous, and its clear rays, penetrating the abyss of the remote past, have brought within our ken some stages of the evolution of the earth. And in the shifting 'without haste, but without rest' of the land and sea, as in the endless variation of the forms assumed by living beings, we have observed nothing but the natural product of the forces originally possessed by the substance of the universe.

66. Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.

86. All of us owe a vast debt to Huxley, especially all of us of English speech, for it was he, more than any other man, who worked that great change in human thought which marked the Nineteenth Century.