#us

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

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

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beyond #fact #far #get #go

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#acknowledge #authority #blind #blind faith #duties

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#because #body #education #formation #habits

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

— Thomas Huxley

#customary #end #fate #heresies #new

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#business #confirm #fact #facts #harmonize

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#either #greater #industry #lack #life

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#faith #justification #learned #man #science