#om

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#economy #lie #money #sparing #spending

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 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. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

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

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#creed #science #suicide

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

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#am #anyone #care #cheapest #freedom

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

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #new

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#common sense #nothing #organized #science #sense