Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

Quotes

• The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

• Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.

• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

• Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

• It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

• The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.