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

— Thomas Huxley

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

— Thomas Huxley

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair just and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

— Thomas Huxley

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

— Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

— Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

— Thomas Huxley

The improve of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

— Thomas Huxley

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

— Thomas Huxley

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

— Thomas Huxley

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

— Thomas Huxley