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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature’s part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity. (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth (Thomas Huxley Quotes)
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability (Thomas Huxley Quotes)