Thomas Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

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.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.