Thomas Huxley Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

• Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

  Thomas Huxley

  Assumption, Chemistry, Sometimes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

• We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.

  Thomas Huxley

  Water, Together, Able

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.107, Lulu.com

• In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Facts, Literature

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