#ma

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#enough #foot #higher #him #hold

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#folly #injustice #just #makes #neither

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#blunders #commit #epochs #fewest #make

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#else #man #marriage #much #nothing

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

#always #bed #before #being #clock

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#dangerous #knowledge #little #man #much

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#authority #court #experiment #observation #ultimate

Misery is a match that never goes out. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#match #misery #never #out

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. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#box #crime #great #hands #his

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#evolution #fashion #history #i #i believe