238 Quotes by Thomas Henry Huxley

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

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

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.

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.