The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Thomas H. Huxley
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. - Thomas H. Huxley
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. - Thomas H. Huxley
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. - Thomas H. Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas H. Huxley
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. - Thomas H. Huxley
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed. - Thomas H. Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas H. Huxley
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. - Thomas H. Huxley
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford. - Thomas H. Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing. - Thomas H. Huxley
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. - Thomas H. Huxley
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. - Thomas H. Huxley
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. - Thomas H. Huxley
Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future. - Thomas H. Huxley
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. - Thomas H. Huxley
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas H. Huxley
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. - Thomas H. Huxley
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. - Thomas H. Huxley
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. - Thomas H. Huxley
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. - Thomas H. Huxley