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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. -- Thomas Huxley
The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo. -- Thomas Huxley
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. -- Thomas Huxley
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. -- Thomas Huxley
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization -- Thomas Huxley
The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable. -- Thomas Huxley
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. -- Thomas Huxley
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. -- Thomas Huxley
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. -- Thomas Huxley
If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe. -- Thomas Huxley
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis. -- Thomas Huxley
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. -- Thomas Huxley
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. -- Thomas Huxley
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. -- Thomas Huxley
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will. -- Thomas Huxley
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. -- Thomas Huxley
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains. -- Thomas Huxley
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse. -- Thomas Huxley
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. -- Thomas Huxley
You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature. -- Thomas Huxley
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. -- Thomas Huxley
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view. -- Thomas Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. -- Thomas Huxley
Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past. -- Thomas Huxley
Freedom and order are not incompatible ... truth is strength ... free discussion is the very life of truth. -- Thomas Huxley
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross. -- Thomas Huxley
What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place? -- Thomas Huxley
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. -- Thomas Huxley
Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod. -- Thomas Huxley
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their 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. -- Thomas Huxley
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. -- Thomas Huxley
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. -- Thomas Huxley
A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others. -- Thomas Huxley
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite. -- Thomas Huxley
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious ... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. -- Thomas Huxley
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. -- Thomas Huxley
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt. -- Thomas Huxley
A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men. -- Thomas Huxley
That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions. -- Thomas Huxley
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. -- Thomas Huxley
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something. -- Thomas Huxley
A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt. -- Thomas Huxley
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves. -- Thomas Huxley
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. -- Thomas Huxley
The doctrine of transmigration... was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; ... none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity. -- Thomas Huxley
To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence. -- Thomas Huxley
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. -- Thomas Huxley
Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man. -- Thomas Huxley
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions. -- Thomas Huxley
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them. -- Thomas Huxley
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! -- Thomas Huxley
For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at. -- Thomas Huxley
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. -- Thomas Huxley
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. -- Thomas Huxley
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance. -- Thomas Huxley
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. -- Thomas Huxley
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. -- Thomas Huxley
Life is like walking along a crowded street
there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement
and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended. -- Thomas Huxley
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us all about the nature of God would be the worst, if they were not surpassed by the still greater absurdities of the philosophers who try to prove that there is no God. -- Thomas Huxley
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. -- Thomas Huxley
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account. -- Thomas Huxley
Veracity is the heart of morality. -- Thomas Huxley
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. -- Thomas Huxley
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him. -- Thomas Huxley
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. -- Thomas Huxley
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. -- Thomas Huxley
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. -- Thomas Huxley
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. -- Thomas Huxley
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium. -- Thomas Huxley
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. -- Thomas Huxley
People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything. -- Thomas Huxley
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. -- Thomas Huxley
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle. -- Thomas Huxley
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact. -- Thomas Huxley
I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible. -- Thomas Huxley
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection
except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts. -- Thomas Huxley
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced. -- Thomas Huxley
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop. -- Thomas Huxley
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric ... -- Thomas Huxley
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. -- Thomas Huxley
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. -- Thomas Huxley
Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality. -- Thomas Huxley
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment ... not authority. -- Thomas Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. -- Thomas Huxley
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. -- Thomas Huxley
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. -- Thomas Huxley
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. -- Thomas Huxley
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. -- Thomas Huxley
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary. -- Thomas Huxley
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them. -- Thomas Huxley
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. -- Thomas Huxley
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future. -- Thomas Huxley
'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them. -- Thomas Huxley
As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention. -- Thomas Huxley
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state. -- Thomas Huxley
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man. -- Thomas Huxley
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone. -- Thomas Huxley
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes. -- Thomas Huxley
The foundation of all 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 of knowledge. -- Thomas Huxley
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization -- Thomas Huxley
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent. -- Thomas Huxley
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. -- Thomas Huxley
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal. -- Thomas Huxley
Misery is a match that never goes out. -- Thomas Huxley
The birth of science was the death of superstition. -- Thomas Huxley
What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning. -- Thomas Huxley
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. -- Thomas Huxley
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. -- Thomas Huxley
Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes. -- Thomas Huxley
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission. -- Thomas Huxley
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. -- Thomas Huxley
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers. -- Thomas Huxley
In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter. -- Thomas Huxley
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation. -- Thomas Huxley
Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead ... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. -- Thomas Huxley
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. -- Thomas Huxley
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master. -- Thomas Huxley
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. -- Thomas Huxley
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. -- Thomas Huxley
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence ... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored. -- Thomas Huxley
No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value. -- Thomas Huxley
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. -- Thomas Huxley
The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. -- Thomas Huxley
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. -- Thomas Huxley
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. -- Thomas Huxley
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. -- Thomas Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Huxley
Learn what is true in order to do what is right. -- Thomas Huxley
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. -- Thomas Huxley
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. -- Thomas Huxley
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. -- Thomas Huxley
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania. -- Thomas Huxley
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. -- Thomas Huxley
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. -- Thomas Huxley
Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed. -- Thomas Huxley
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. -- Thomas Huxley
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. -- Thomas Huxley
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts ... but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far. -- Thomas Huxley
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth. -- Thomas Huxley
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war ... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land. -- Thomas Huxley
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? -- Thomas Huxley
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin. -- Thomas Huxley
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. -- Thomas Huxley
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. -- Thomas Huxley
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity. -- Thomas Huxley
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well. -- Thomas Huxley
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. -- Thomas Huxley
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of this lifeleads men to a ruinous ignorance of the fact that their inevitable rewards and punishments are here. -- Thomas Huxley
Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man. -- Thomas Huxley
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. -- Thomas Huxley
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford. -- Thomas Huxley
I protest that 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 would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. -- Thomas Huxley
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter. -- Thomas Huxley
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams. -- Thomas Huxley
