“Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: truth
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The great thing in the world is
“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: peace
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There is no sea more dangerous than
“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
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: politics
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I protest that if some great Power
“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
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: power
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No slavery can be abolished without a
“No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: freedom
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All truth, in the long run, is
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: truth
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My business is to teach my aspirations
“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: business
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The results of political changes are hardly
“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: hope
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed
“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
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: knowledge
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I take it that the good of
“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
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: happiness
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The results of political changes are hardly
“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: fear
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