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

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

- Thomas Huxley

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

- Thomas Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

- Thomas Huxley

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

- 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 …

- Thomas Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

- Thomas Huxley

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

- Thomas Huxley

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

- Thomas Huxley