Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

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.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one’s own mind.

The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The central propositions [of Descartes]…are these: There is a path that leads to the truth so surely that any one who will follow it must needs reach the goal… And there is one guiding rule by which a man may always find this path…give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted.

The generalizations of science sweep in ever-widening circles, and more aspiring flights, through a limitless creation.