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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 74 quotes by Thomas Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS FLS (/ˈhʌksli/; 4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous debate in 1860 with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution and in his own career. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with... Read full biography of Thomas Huxley → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would... → 0 The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is... → 0 Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. 0 The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. 0 No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. 0 The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. 0 The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of... → 0 The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the... → 0 The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and... → 0 I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the... → 0 If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did... → 0 I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to... → 0 The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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74 quotes by Thomas Huxley