Thomas Huxley Quotes about Atheism

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Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

Religion, Atheism, Sin

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

Thomas Huxley

Fire, Doubt, Atheism

"T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator". Book by Cyril Bibby, p. 257, 1950.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions.

Thomas Huxley

Believe, Men, Atheism

Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

Thomas Huxley

Atheism, Guinea, Made

Thomas Henry Huxley (1903). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

Science, Views, Atheism

Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley”