If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
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Thomas Huxley
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About Thomas Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Thomas HuxleyIn scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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.
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 anot…
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
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.
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.
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.