Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Advice
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Authority
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Computer Science
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Facts
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Growth
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Religion Beliefs
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Science
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Sentiment
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Theory
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Theory
Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley Topic: Time
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