238 Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don’t get right.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.