Thomas Henry Huxley (birthed in Ealing in Middlesex, England, died in Eastbourne) was a British biologist that is called an early advocate of Darwin's reasoning. He has often been described as "Darwin's bulldog" on gunn of his protection of numerous (but not all) of Darwin's theories. He is specifically remembered for his terrible conversations with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce.
His scientific arguments with Richard Owen is an example of his vision. Huxley looked for resemblances in between human and gorillas skeletons, as well as he covered this and also made posters.
He remained in 1869 among the prodarwinister who started the journal Nature.
His essays offered him a credibility as one of the English language's biggest stylists. His language endowment aided to popularize Darwinism for the broad masses, in that he made use of an easy language that most people can comprehend.
Huxley suggested to be the initial individual who started to use words agnostic in 1869. He claimed that the churches declared to possess a special gnosis (knowledge) of God and of things come from. He asserted that he can not accept this since it was about training courses outside human assumption, which he consequently was agnostic.
Some later Christian apologieter Huxley calls the first atheistic evangelist, despite the fact that he made use of words agnostic as well as would not agree that he should be an atheist. He was, nonetheless, a strong challenger of virtually any type of type of organized religion, though he specifically went out versus Catholicism. Lenin said regarding him in his work Materialism and also empiriokritisisme that "In Huxley's situation ... agnosticism acts as a fig leaf for materialism. "
Thomas Henry Huxley, the father of Leonard Huxley as well as grandfather to Julian Huxley, who was among others was UNESCO's first supervisor as well as one of the International Humanist and Ethical Union's creators, and the author Aldous Huxley.
Our collection contains 65 quotes who is written / told by Thomas, under the main topics: Words of Wisdom.
"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely"
"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"
"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"
"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed"
"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense"
"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth"
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge"
"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing"
"There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high"
"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite"
"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental"
"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority"
"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 coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals"
"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors"
"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability"
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher"
"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear"
"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false"
"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 hand"
"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me"
"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man"
"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact"
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed"
"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness"
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something"
"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect"
"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin"
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact"
"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life"
"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth"
"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science"
"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified"
"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins"
"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards"
"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation"
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing"
"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah"
"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic"
"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"
"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right"
"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations"
"Misery is a match that never goes out"
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation"
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men"
"Learn what is true in order to do what is right"
"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions"
"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy"
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance"
"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts"
