The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest. - Thomas Huxley
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
- Thomas Huxley
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite. - Thomas Huxley
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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 … - 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 …
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. - Thomas Huxley
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. - Thomas Huxley
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Learn what is true in order to do what is right. - Thomas Huxley
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop. - Thomas Huxley
I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
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