Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.