Thomas Huxley Quotes
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. Learn what is true in order to do what is right. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Misery is a match that never goes out. My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right. No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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