A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.
Thomas HuxleyThe method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.
Thomas HuxleyNo one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
Thomas HuxleyTeach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
Thomas Huxley