Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

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.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.