Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly

Summary

This quote suggests that science is an elevated and refined version of common sense. It highlights the importance of accuracy in observation and the rejection of faulty reasoning in scientific endeavors. Science strives to uncover objective truths by being rigorous in observations and logical deductions, removing any room for error or falsehoods. By emphasizing the rigor and rationality of science, this quote portrays it as a reliable and credible method for understanding the world.

Topics

By Thomas Henry Huxley

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your mus

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your lif

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can't afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

College Future Plans Going To College High School

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

John Lancaster Spalding

Love Virtues Faults

There are times when the only access I have to the truest pe

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of tru

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

William Warburton

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.

A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the excepti

A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.

Martin H. Fischer

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and i

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

The thing that most people didn't understand...was that a ra

The thing that most people didn't understand...was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chill

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Wendell Phillips