Author:Thomas Henry Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley “It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”

Thomas Henry Huxley “Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. ”

Thomas Henry Huxley “I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well. ”

Thomas Henry Huxley “Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ”

Thomas Henry Huxley “Veracity is the heart of morality. ”

Thomas Henry Huxley “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. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. ”

Thomas Henry Huxley “This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted accuracy of mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. ”

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