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

Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

Topics: Knowledge Quotes

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to...

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to...

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules...

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules...

Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men

Logical consequences are the scare-crows of fools and the beacons of wise men

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the...

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a...

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a...

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as...

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as...

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause...

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause...

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly...

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly...

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do...

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do...

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret...

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret...

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...