In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.
Thomas HuxleySurely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Thomas HuxleyThe best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Thomas HuxleyScience is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas HuxleyThe very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.
Thomas HuxleyThe mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
Thomas Huxley