If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
Thomas HuxleyAs for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you... And as to the curs which will bark and yelp - you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead - I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness.
Thomas HuxleyFact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
Thomas HuxleyI take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men
Thomas HuxleyThe dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
Thomas HuxleyIt does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance
Thomas Huxley