Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#folly #injustice #just #makes #neither

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#creed #science #suicide

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

— Thomas Huxley

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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Thomas Huxley

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beyond #fact #far #get #go

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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