Thomas Huxley

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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

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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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

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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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