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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Huxley
Life, Business, Knowledge
"Technical Education" (1877)

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas Huxley
Education, Knowledge, Authority And Power
Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.

Thomas Huxley
Book, Knowledge, World
Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Huxley
Real, Believe, Knowledge
'Collected Essays' vol. 3 (1895) 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas Huxley
Knowledge, College, Looks

It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.

Thomas Huxley
Lying, Spring, Knowledge
Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

Thomas Huxley
Running, Knowledge, Giving
Thomas Henry Huxley (1873). “Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S”, p.7

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

Thomas Huxley
Knowledge, Science, Ordinary
Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with; and, not unfrequently, in spite of a long career of usefulness, turned out to be wholly erroneous in the long run.

Thomas Huxley
Running, Knowledge, Science
Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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