Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
- Thomas Huxley
More Quotes By Thomas Huxley
- The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest...
- The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
- The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he...
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out...
- Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
- It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
- God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
- Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may...
- Let us have “sweet girl graduates” by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a...
- Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this...
- The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
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