Science is simply common sense at its best - that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic

Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Science Quotes

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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 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

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life...

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life...

'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...

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in...

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in...

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they...

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they...

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...

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.

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...

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.