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- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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