There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesThe great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesTeach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
in Thomas Huxley QuotesScience reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesThe 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.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesThe more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesThe doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesIf 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.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesThe 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.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesThe results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesNothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
in Thomas Huxley QuotesThere 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.
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