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Thomas Henry Huxley PC PRS FLS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Future, People, Scientific, Survive

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 posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Believe, Knowledge, Mind, Quantity, Real, Thing

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And 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

Dirty, Importance, Lose, Patience, People, Race

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Absolute, Education, Government, Involved, Knowledge, Natural

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Care, Education, Subject, Taught, Teaching

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.

Good, Needs, Ocean, Sea, Unfaltering

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.

Delusion, Life, Method, Mother, Science

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

Good, Half, Intellect, May, Men

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Idea, Ideas, May, Presumption, Say, Truth

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Benefits, Double, Double Standard, Freedom, Men, Slavery

It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.

Afterlife, Highest, History, Levels, Might, Remember

Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

Convinced, Mean, People, Popular, Science, Uninstructed

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

Alone, Fearing, Leave, Ought, Strategy

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Freedom, Inspiring, Men, Right, Wrong

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

Data, Degree, Grandest, Mathematics, May, Work

Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. . . . Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

Lying, Essence, Facts, Application, Positively

The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.

Making Mistakes, Mistake, Mistakes, People, Scientific

The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

Believe, Generated, Intelligent, Man, Men, Woman

It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.

Believe, Believes, Honesty, Mankind, Religion, Valuable

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

Approximation, Finals, High, Ignorance, Remains, Twenties

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