Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes

Let us have “sweet girl graduates” by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the “golden hair” will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one’s ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Veracity is the heart of morality.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Agnosticism is not properly described as a “negative” creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind’s throwing?

— Thomas Henry Huxley

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Man’s Place in Nature.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

— Thomas Henry Huxley
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