There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Quote by Thomas Huxley

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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...

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no...

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no...

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...

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

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

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

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...

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...

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....

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 only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to...

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to...

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

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 best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders...

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders...

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 scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may...

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may...

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's...

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's...

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 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....