Creative Quotations from . . .
Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825-1895) born on May 04
English biologist. He was an advocate of Darwin's natural selection theory and named the phylum Coelenterata (Jellyfish).
 
   
F
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

R
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
A
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
N
The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
K
"No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of motherwit, either in science or in practical life."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979."
R: "In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "In "The Practical Cogitator," by Francis Galton."
K: ""On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge" in "Collected Essays," vol. 1, 1893."



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