The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Quote by Thomas Huxley

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity,...

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity,...

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has...

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has...

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...

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever...

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever...

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of...

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of...

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...

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world....

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world....

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end...

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end...

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man...

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man...

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...

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

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.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them....

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them....

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...

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...

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...