Thomas Huxley Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religion, Atheism, Sin

• The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Sin, Blind

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

• We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

  Thomas Huxley

  Peace, Ignorance, Ignorant

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.128, tredition

• [Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Believe, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.106, University of Georgia Press

• It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

  Thomas Huxley

  Math, Statistics, Firsts

  Man's Place in Nature II (p. 126)

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