Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

“Nevertheless, it is possible for anyone, who has familiarised himself with the operations of science in one department, to comprehend the significance, and even to form a general estimate of the value, of the achievements of specialists in other...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

topic:science

“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

topic:science progress

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact;”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

topic:science

“I may hope, therefore, that my chance of escaping serious errors is as good as that of anyone else, who might have been persuaded to undertake the somewhat perilous enterprise in which I find myself engaged.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

topic:danger

“Physical science therefore rests on verified or uncontradicted hypotheses; and, such being the case, it is not surprising that a great condition of its progress has been the invention of verifiable hypotheses.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“That a particular molecular motion does give rise to a state of consciousness is experimentally certain; but the how and why of the process are just as inexplicable as in the case of the communication of kinetic energy by impact.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

topic:theory

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