Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Thomas Huxley
T. H. Huxley.
| Born | May 4, 1825 Ealing, England |
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| Died | June 29, 1895 Eastbourne, England |
British writer and scientist. Passionate advocate of Darwinist evolutionism and the theory of natural selection. President of the Royal Society 1881-1885. Coined the word "agnostic."
The repository contains four quotes from T. H. Huxley.
Imagination • Opinion • Truth
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
