Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Quote by Thomas Huxley

Topics: Cleverness Quotes

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating...

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating...

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better...

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better...

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly...

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly...

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their...

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their...

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively...

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively...

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as...

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as...

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

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

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold...

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold...

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of...

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of...

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human...

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human...

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

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...

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by...

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by...

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

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

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try...

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try...