top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Man quotes
"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Huxley
"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
"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."
"The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals."
"Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit."
bottom of page