“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wi...” — Thomas Huxley Quote

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”

“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”

“Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.”

“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”

“America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.”

“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”

“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”

“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”