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Thomas Henry Huxley
A world of...
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Source: In Instant...
Irrationally held truths...
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Source: In Isaac...
Every great advance...
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
The great tragedy...
The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
No delusion is...
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of motherwit, either in science...
If a little...
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of...
In scientific work,...
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
It is the...
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
There is the...
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
A well-worn adage...
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest...
It is because...
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing...
Genius, as an...
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
Source: In A New Dictionary...
It is the...
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
Source: Evidence as to...
Mathematics may be...
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness;...
It is not...
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.
Source: In The...
Try to learn...
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Source: In...
I am too...
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Source: Letter to...
The great end...
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Source: Science and...
All truth, in...
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Source: On the Study of...
Patience and tenacity...
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness.