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Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Truth Science She Her Function

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

Truth Time Everything Against Whose

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

Physics Biology Sometimes Nothing

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

History Fate End New Begin Us

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.

Freedom I Am Me Care Wrong Ready

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

Business Ocean Stand Generation Land

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Science Promise Even Prophets Many

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Man Wise Wise Man True Will Ask

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Value Spirit More Products May Than

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Business Facts Teach Try Aspirations

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Good Sea Politics Ocean Purpose

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Bible Poor Oppressed Been Magna

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