238 Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Let us have “sweet girl graduates” by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the “golden hair” will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.