Thomas Henry Huxley: Quotes

• Action

  The great end of life is not knowledge but action.Thomas Henry Huxley: Technical Education

• Consequences

  Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.Thomas Henry Huxley: Science and Culture

• Facts

  Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.Thomas Henry Huxley

• Knowledge and Learning

  If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?Thomas Henry Huxley: On Elemental Instruction in Physiology

• Nature

  To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.Thomas Henry Huxley

• Science

  The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.Thomas Henry Huxley: Collected Essays

• Success and Failure

  There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.Thomas Henry Huxley: Critiques and Addresses

• The World

  For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.Thomas Henry Huxley: A Liberal Education

• Truth

  It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.Thomas Henry Huxley: The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species