238 Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric...

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.