Thomas Huxley Quotes About Work

Quotes about: Work

• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Work, Teaching

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

• In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Science, Facts

  Methods and Results The Progress of Science (p. 62)

• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Data, May

  "Geological Reform". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 25, 1869.

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