Thomas Huxley Mind Quotations

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.