English - Scientist | May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas Huxley
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Misery is a match that never goes out.
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
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The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
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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.
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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
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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.
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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.
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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
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