306 Quotes by Thomas Huxley

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

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

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers.

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