Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas HuxleyThe 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 HuxleyIf a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
Thomas HuxleyScience is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas HuxleyI am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.
Thomas Huxley