Thomas Henry Huxley

"Science is the knowledge of general truths or principles of the operation of general laws, acquired and verified by the human understanding through experience and experiment."

"To be an efficient worker, one must learn to work with tools which one has never used before."

"It is a popular delusion that the ignorant are free."

"The capacity for taking trouble is a talent in itself."

"Death is but a transition from one phase of life to another."

"The greatest discoveries of science have always been those which forced us to revise our preconceived notions."

"Every man who comes into the world is endowed with the right to work."

"I owe more to my enemies than to my friends for it is from them that I have always been obliged to think carefully."

"The true foundation of the ology is to make the facts of Nature the basis of every assertion."

"Consciousness is a transformation of the physical into the mental."

"The only hope of improvement lies in the hands of the young."

"Do not pretend to teach what you do not thoroughly understand yourself."

"The essence of the scientific method is the question, and the essence of the question is doubt."

"Our greatest dangers come from the unchecked activities of unscrupulous men."

"The world respects a man who knows what he wants and goes after it with determination."

"The method is everything in science."

"Wise men don't give the right answers, they probe the right questions."

"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's hand, they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense."

"The only thing as useless as a written constitution is an unwritten one."

"A careful attention to the facts of a case is the duty of an honest judge."

"I make my own luck through hard work and preparation."

"To be a leader is to inspire others to do their best work."

"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is love and the freedom to become themselves."

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose."

"Kindness is not a weakness; it is the highest form of strength."

"The pursuit of truth is the most noble of all human endeavors."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."

"Life is too short to hold grudges."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."

"We all have to live together in this world, and we might as well get along."