Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley
More from: Thomas Huxley
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? -
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge. -
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. -
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. -
With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
More quotes by Thomas Huxley
- In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
- Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
- The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
- My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
- It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.