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• Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life Is Too Short, Slaying, Oneself

  Athenaeum magazine, p. 498, April 13, 1861.

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• Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

  Thomas Huxley

  Hazards, Way, Guidance

  Thomas Henry Huxley (19??). “Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley”

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• 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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• There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Failure

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.

  Thomas Huxley

  Errors, Sound, Helping

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 63)

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• 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

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• Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Passion, Self, Prejudice

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• The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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• In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

  Thomas Huxley

  Book, Knowledge, World

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

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• Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Order, Speech

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• Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Snakes, Records

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Hard Work, Passion

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• The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

  Thomas Huxley

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

  Thomas Huxley

  Integrity, Trying, Facts

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

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• Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Science, Common Sense

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• 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)

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• Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Sound

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology”, Concept Publishing Company

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• If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

  Thomas Huxley

  Political, Liberty, Politics

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.425, Cambridge University Press

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• Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wisdom, Writing, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, May, Matter

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.272, University of Georgia Press

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• Veracity is the heart of morality.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Honesty, Heart

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Violent Man, Violent

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

  Thomas Huxley

  Perseverance, Men, Feet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley”

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