Tag: Thomas Huxley

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

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Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman’s cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

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Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

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The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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