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The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century quotes

Thomas Henry Huxley

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“I cannot discover that any contemporary physicist or chemist believes in the real indivisibility of atoms, or in an interatomic matterless vacuum.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“I may hope, therefore, that my chance of escaping serious errors is as good as that of anyone else, who might have been persuaded to undertake the somewhat perilous enterprise in which I find myself engaged.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“In so far as matter may be conceived to exist in a purely passive state, it is, imaginably, older than motion.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“It was proved that no destruction took place, but that an exact equivalent of the energy of the lost molar motion appears as that of the molecular motion, or motion of the smallest particles of a body, which constitutes heat.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Physical science therefore rests on verified or uncontradicted hypotheses; and, such being the case, it is not surprising that a great condition of its progress has been the invention of verifiable hypotheses.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Physical science is one and indivisible.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact;” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“There is no study better fitted than that of geology to impress upon men of general culture that conviction of the unbroken sequence of the order of natural phenomena, throughout the duration of the universe, which is the great, and perhaps the...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“The great steps in its progress have been made, are made, and will be made, by men who seek knowledge simply because they crave for it.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. And, in scientific inquiry, at any rate, it is to that one or two that we...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Whether for this, or for some better reason, the founders of the schools of the Middle Ages included astronomy, along with geometry, arithmetic, and music, as one of the four branches of advanced education; and, in this respect, it is only just...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“The geocentric system of astronomy, with its eccentrics and its epicycles, was an hypothesis utterly at variance with fact, which nevertheless did great things for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“That a particular molecular motion does give rise to a state of consciousness is experimentally certain; but the how and why of the process are just as inexplicable as in the case of the communication of kinetic energy by impact.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“The doctrine of specific heat originated in the eighteenth century. It means that the same mass of a body, under the same circumstances, always requires the same quantity of heat to raise it to a given temperature, but that equal masses of...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“It should never be forgotten that what we call 'catastrophes,' are, in relation to the earth, changes, the equivalents of which would be well represented by the development of a few pimples, or the scratch of a pin, on a man's head.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“Nevertheless, it is possible for anyone, who has familiarised himself with the operations of science in one department, to comprehend the significance, and even to form a general estimate of the value, of the achievements of specialists in other...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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