Thomas Huxley

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and read more

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

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

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

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