Thomas Henry Huxley

The question is not whether I am a monkey's descendant, but whether I am a descendant of a man who is ashamed to have a monkey for a grandfather.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving conformity with those laws.

I have no doubt that in the future, as in the past, the great majority of men will continue to believe in some form of supernaturalism.

If a man is able to be a good father, a good husband, a good citizen, a good friend, he has done his duty.

The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the wisdom of the Creator.

I am not a believer in the doctrine of 'art for art's sake,' but I am a firm believer in the doctrine of 'science for truth's sake.'

The man who is all morality and no intellect is a fool; the man who is all intellect and no morality is a devil.

The world is a great game, and the rules are made by nature.

The highest of all sciences is the science of living well.

I am not a man of many words, but I am a man of many thoughts, and those thoughts are often expressed in words which are not many.

The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the unpardonable sin.

If I am to be shot at, I prefer to be shot at by a gentleman.

The most considerable part of the history of science is the history of the gradual elimination of error.

I have been called a 'man of science.' I am not a man of science. I am a man of letters who happens to be interested in science.

I am not aware that I have ever been guilty of a single original idea.

The question of whether the universe is governed by chance or by design is a question which, in the present state of our knowledge, is insoluble.

The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the ingenuity of the Creator.

The man who is all things to all men is nothing to any man.

I have a great respect for the opinions of others, but I have a still greater respect for the facts.