Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Thomas Huxley

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

Christian

Infidelity

Modesty

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[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

Believe

Lying

Science

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A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.

Powerful

Thunder

Water

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A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.

Art

Hard Work

Passion

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A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.

Men

Real

Science

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A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.

Believe

Men

Winning

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A man’s worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Able

Freedom

Men

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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

Adages

Cost

People

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A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Facts

Lying

World

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Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

Accomplishment

Dream

Path

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