Thomas Huxley Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Survival, Progress

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.327, University of Georgia Press

• If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

  Thomas Huxley

  Play, Individuality, Progress

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “More Criticisms on Darwin, and Administrative Nihilism”, p.76

• It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Honesty, Believe, Religion

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.241, Cambridge University Press

• Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Spiritual, Rome, Civilization

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.61

• Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

  Thomas Huxley

  Years, Intellectual, Progress

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

• 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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