Quotes
Quotes - Huxley
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The great tragedy of scienceâthe 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.
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
To his dog, every man is Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroesâah, they have all the necessary leisure.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
