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Thomas Henry Huxley quotes (25) Time whose tooth gnaws away everything else is powerless against truth. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Teenagers Consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Consequences 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. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Mistake This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted accuracy of mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but nevertheless what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Mathematics A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Fact I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Teach 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. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Infidelity Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the Ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Ability Veracity is the heart of morality. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Morality The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Gravity All truth in the long run is only common sense clarified. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Common Science is simply common sense at its best that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Science Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Epitaphs What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Knowledge There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Early It is not who is right but what is right that is important. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Courage 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 eyes to see them. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: World A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Unsorted The only medicine for suffering crime and all the other woes of mankind is wisdom. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Wisdom It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Truth A mans worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Begin The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon but only to hold a mans foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Growth Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Error Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Authority If a little knowledge is dangerous where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Danger |
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