Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Thomas HuxleyBetter live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
Thomas HuxleyMatter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.
Thomas HuxleyPeople never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.
Thomas HuxleyI have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Nevertheless I know that I am, in spite of myself, exactly what the Christian would call, and, so far as I can see, is justified in calling, atheist and infidel.
Thomas Huxley