Thomas Huxley

“The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.”

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

“Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.”

“I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.”

“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”

“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”

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

“The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”

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

“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”

“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”

“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”

“The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.”

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”

“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.”

“The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.”

“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.”

“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.”

“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.”

“There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.”