306 Quotes by Thomas Huxley

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

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

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

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

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.