History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin… — Quoted

“Quotes”

“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”

Thomas Huxley · History

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

Thomas Huxley

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

Science

Thomas Huxley

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Fear

Thomas Huxley

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

History

Thomas Huxley

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Power