Thomas H. Huxley Biography, Quotes, Works and Writings

Books by Thomas H. Huxley

A Critical Examination Of The Position Of Mr Darwins Work On The Origin Of Species	Lecture The Past Condition of Organic Nature	The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study
Autobiography and Selected Essays	Lectures on Evolution	The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature
Coral and Coral Reefs	Mr. Gladstone and Genesis	The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
Criticisms On The Origin of Species From The Natural History Review 1864	On Some Fossil Remains of Man	The Method By Which The Causes Of The Present And Past Conditions Of Organic Nature Are To Be Discovered
Critiques and Addresses	On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge	The Origin of Species From The Westminster Review April 1860
Discourses Biological and Geological Essays	On the Method of Zadig	The Perpetuation Of Living Beings‚ Hereditary Transmission And Variation
Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions	On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals	The Present Condition of Organic Nature
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature	On the Study of Zoology	The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology
Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life	Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of Brain in Man and the Apes	William Harvey And The Discovery Of The Circulation Of The Blood
Hasisadra's Adventure	The Conditions Of Existence As Affecting The Perpetuation Of Living Beings	Yeast

Quotes by Thomas H. Huxley

“ I do not mean to suggest that scientific differences should be settled by universal suffrage‚ but I do conceive that solid proofs must be met by something more than empty and unsupported assertions.' Yet during the ”

“ Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules. ”

“ To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. ”

“ The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is‚ to my mind‚ a very dangerous adage.' If knowledge is real and genuine‚ I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession‚ however infinitesimal ”

“ I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as ”

“ Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within. ”

“ 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; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and‚ ”

“ All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. ”

“ That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. ”

“ In an ideal University‚ as I conceive it‚ a man should be able to obtain instruction in all forms of knowledge‚ and discipline in the use of all the methods by which knowledge is obtained.' In such a University‚ the force ”

“ M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism ''minus'' Christianity. ”

“ The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. ”

“ 'Science ... commits suicide when it adopts a creed.' ”

“ The antagonism between science and religion‚ about which we hear so much‚ appears to me to be purely factitious' — fabricated‚ on the one hand‚ by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of ”

“ History warns us, however, that 'it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions'; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new ”

“ The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority‚ as such. For him‚ scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.' And it cannot be otherwise‚ for every great ”

“ 'I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything — especially as I am now so much occupied with theology — but I don't see my way to your conclusion.' ”

“ The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ”

“ The Bishop rose, and in a light scoffing tone, florid and he assured us there was nothing in the idea of evolution; rock-pigeons were what rock-pigeons had always been. Then, turning to his antagonist with a smiling ”

“ The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. ”

“ The man who is all morality and intellect‚ although he may be good and even great‚ is‚ after all‚ only half a man. ”

“ I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy‚ and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I ”

“ Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. ”

“ Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. ”

“ I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches. ”

“ Missionaries, whether of philosophy or of religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions of the multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the ”

“ The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”

“ The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" ”

“ If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet who employs these faculties and that influence ”

“ The fact is he made a prodigious blunder in commencing the attack, and now his only chance is to be silent and let people forget the exposure. I do not believe that in the whole history of science there is a case of ”

“ If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close ”

“ Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. ”

“ Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, has its application to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross. ”

“ 'The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying'; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities ”

“ It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the average white man. And, ”

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