Quote

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

Thomas Huxley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
Anatomist
Anthropologist
Biologist
Carcinologist
Ichthyologist
Linguist
Naturalist
Paleontologist
Philosopher
Photographer
Physiologist
Lexington
Kentucky
T. H. Huxley
Huxley
Infallibility
Dogma
Pope
Evident
Bible
Self
Popes

More quotes by Thomas Huxley

Image
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
Thomas Huxley
Image
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
Thomas Huxley
Image
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
Thomas Huxley
Image
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
Thomas Huxley
Image
In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.
Thomas Huxley
Image
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.
Thomas Huxley
Image
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
Thomas Huxley
Image
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.
Thomas Huxley
Image
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley
Image
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Thomas Huxley
Image
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
Thomas Huxley
Image
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.
Thomas Huxley
Image
If individuality has no play, society does not advance if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
Thomas Huxley
Image
The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.
Thomas Huxley
Image
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.
Thomas Huxley
Image
... our Physick and Anatomy have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.
Thomas Huxley
Image
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley
Image
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
Thomas Huxley
Image
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
Thomas Huxley
Image
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
Thomas Huxley