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Thomas Huxley Quotes

English - Scientist | May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Learning Learn Try Everything About

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

Patience Brainy Worth More Tenacity

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

Happiness Great Peace World Earn

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Man Rest Brainy Enough Long Ladder

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Truth Learn True Right Order

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Good Mind World Consequences Done

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

Science Beautiful Great Ugly Tragedy

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science Best Logic Common Sense

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science Beautiful Ugly Common Sense

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Knowledge Great Rejection Authority

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Imagination Limits Always Within

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Faith Science Man Believe Learned

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