"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
― Thomas Huxley
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Religion
More From Thomas Huxley
- "The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
- "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer."
- "Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth."
More In Religion
- "I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."― Bill Maher
- "The question of religion was a matter for each individual’s conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."― James Larkin
- "Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies."― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow