Creative Quotations from Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

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).

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
R:	"Letter to Herbert Spencer, 22 Mar 1886."
A:	""Science and Culture.""
N:	""On the Study of Biology," lecture, 1876, at South Kensington Museum, London, in "Collected Essays," vol. 3, 1893."
K:	""On Medical Education," address, 1870, at University College, London, in "Collected Essays," vol. 3, 1893."