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Letter "T" » Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes
«Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
beacon, beacons, logical, scarecrow, scarecrows, The Scarecrow
«Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manne»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
cut-and-thrust, differ, differing, guardsman, guardsmen, raw, raw recruit, recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits, thrust, trained, veteran, veterans
«The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
account of the creation, Eve, fable, preposterous
«'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Infidelity
| Keywords:
infidel, infidels, Mohammedan, Mohammedans
«God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me»
«Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.»
«The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
«Perhaps the most valuable result of al 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.»
«There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
argued, badly, conclusion, hasty, worthless
«In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact»
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