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Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

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

Nature Child Learn You Down Nothing

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

Knowledge Man Dangerous Out Little

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Fear Hope Political Friends Results

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

Life Strength Truth Freedom Free

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Observation Authority Experiment

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Education Organization Body Possible

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Knowledge Forward Looks New Old

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Truth Common Sense Long Run Sense

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science Common Sense Nothing Sense

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Wisdom Right Who Importance

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

Work Go Beyond Get Far Fact

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Nature World Game Universe Rules Us

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