Thomas Huxley

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.

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.

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

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

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.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.