Thomas Huxley Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

• Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with; and, not unfrequently, in spite of a long career of usefulness, turned out to be wholly erroneous in the long run.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Knowledge, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.62, 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

• I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Class, White

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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