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Letter "T" » Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes
«The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature,
Universe,
World
| Keywords:
board, board game, chess, chess game, chess player, Laws of nature, Other side, phenomena, player, Rules of, the laws of nature, The other side, The Player, The Rules
«Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.»
«Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Authority,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
rejection, rejections, The Absolute
«Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
accurate, fallacies, fallacy, merciless, rigidly
«It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
attainment, effected, extent, paradoxical, scientific, the help, to a great extent
«If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?»
«If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
advance, bounds, individualities, individuality, perishes
«The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact»
«Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
against time, gnaw, gnawed, gnaws, gnaw at, powerless, tooth
«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»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Arguments,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
assuming, nonsensical, supporter, supporters, to a great extent
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