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Quotations By Thomas H. Huxley

Beliefs

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Business

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

Education

Perhaps the most valuable result of all 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.

Education

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

Knowledge

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Science

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Universe

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. -- Thomas H. Huxley