306 Quotes by Thomas Huxley

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.