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Danh ngôn của Thomas Huxley (Sứ mệnh: 9)

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.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
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.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.