Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

— Thomas Huxley

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

— Thomas Huxley

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

— Thomas Huxley

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

— Thomas Huxley

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

— Thomas Huxley

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

— Thomas Huxley

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

— Thomas Huxley

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

— Thomas Huxley

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

— Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

— Thomas Huxley