Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

You must acquire something of that industrious habit of mind which the study of natural science gives,—the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see; the art of connecting facts together in your mind in cause and effect

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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 a way of trying not to fool yourself.

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

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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.

Science does not permit exceptions.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Experience by itself is not science.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Science has been a discipline in which testability, rather than any ecclesiastical authority or philosophical coherence, has been the measure of a scientific idea’s worth

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.