15 Quotes by Thomas H. Huxley

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

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.

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled serpents

Learn what is true in order to do what is right" is the summing up of the whole duty of man

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence