If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? – Thomas Huxley
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. – Thomas Huxley
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. – Thomas Huxley
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of ‘agnostic’. – Thomas Huxley
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. – Thomas Huxley
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. – Thomas Huxley
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. – Thomas Huxley
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. – Thomas 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. – Thomas Huxley
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious… and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. – Thomas Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one’s own way at all hazards. – Thomas Huxley
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. – Thomas Huxley