Thomas Huxley Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Children

• Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

  Thomas Huxley

  Power, Gunpowder, Genius

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

• Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Knowledge, Giving

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1873). “Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S”, p.7

• The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.

  Thomas Huxley

  Philosophy, Men, Infidelity

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.66, University of Georgia Press

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