Thomas Henry Huxley/Quotes
Try to learn something about everything and
everything about something.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying
of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science is simply common sense at its best,
that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
The great end of life is not knowledge but
action.
My business is to teach my aspirations to
confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my
aspirations.
The deepest sin against the human mind is
to believe things without evidence.
It is not who is right, but what is right,
that is of importance.
Irrationally held truths may be more
harmful than reasoned errors.
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.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than
twice their weight of cleverness.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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