Quotes by Thomas Huxley

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.