Thomas Henry Huxley

"The reward of faithful labor is not what you get for it, but what you become by it."

"Nobody can blame you for not knowing everything. It is impossible to know everything."

"The truly religious man is he who finds the deepest significance in the universe."

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"

"The world cannot live on soap and water alone."

"In praise of Socrates, we might say that he was the first to show that the business of a wise man is to know himself."

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."

"Man is an animal, but he is a rational animal."

"There ought to be moral right to free thought."

"There is no more common error than to assume that because prolonged and accurate mathematical treatment of the data is possible, the data itself possess the qualities which lend themselves to such treatment."

"State education is inimical to the public welfare."

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

"Be careful how you interpret the world. It is like that."

"Every one of us is more or less an ape or a Tiger."

"The hypothesis that animal life is the outcome of a long process of natural selection."

"A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating the question which he wishes answered."

"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he is a dirty little beast."

"Veracity is the heart of morality."

"The only possible function of government is to keep the peace."

"The present condition of science is mostly the result of the natural superiority of men of genius."

"There is an enemy called ignorance inside each one of us."

"I assure you the typewriter is a great invention."

"Skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith is the one unpardonable sin."

"The transformation effected in the life of the individual who passes through the experience of being aware of cosmic unity."

"One of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unmarried."

"Memory is the treasure house of the mind."

"The world pays homage to art only when it is dead."

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

"Those who take the greatest delight in itself are always those who are trying to get beyond it."

"Our duty is towards facts."