“A grande tragédia da ciência: o massacre de uma bela hipótese por parte de um horrível facto.”
Variante: A grande tragédia da ciência: o massacre de uma bela hipótese por parte de um horrível fato.
Thomas Henry Huxley:
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Thomas Henry Huxley Frases famosas
“A verdade é a essência da moralidade.”
Veracity is the heart of morality
Science and education - página 178, de Thomas Henry Huxley, editora P.F. Collier, 1893, 381 páginas
Frases sobre a ciência de Thomas Henry Huxley
“A ciência se suicida quando adota um credo.”
science [...] commits suicide when it adopts a creed
Darwiniana: Essays by Thomas H. Huxley - Página 252, Thomas Henry Huxley - D. Appleton and company, 1896 - 475 páginas
Variante: A ciência comete suicídio quando adopta um credo.
Thomas Henry Huxley, conforme relatado por Singh, Simon - Big Bang - Editora Record - Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo - 2006. ISBN: 85-01-07213-3 (pág. 459)
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Citações de verdade de Thomas Henry Huxley
“Prefiro ser parente de um macaco que de um homem que usa eloqüência para destruir a verdade.”
Fonte: Revista Superinteressante Nº 004 http://super.abril.com.br/superarquivo/1988/conteudo_111022.shtml
“Toda verdade inédita começa como heresia e acaba como superstição.”
the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions
Darwiniana: Essays by Thomas H. Huxley - Página 229, Thomas Henry Huxley - D. Appleton and company, 1896 - 475 páginas
“O destino das grandes verdades é este: começam como heresias e acabam como superstições.”
Variante: O destino normal das novas verdades é começar como heresias e terminar como superstições.
Thomas Henry Huxley frases e citações
“A grande finalidade da vida não é o conhecimento, mas a ação.”
Variante: A grande finalidade da vida não é o conhecimento, mas a acção.
Variante: Qualquer pessoa que tenha experiência com o trabalho científico sabe que aqueles que se recusam a ir além dos factos raramente chegam aos factos em si.
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.
Critiques and addresses - página 57, de Thomas Henry Huxley, Editora D. Appleton and company, 1873, 317 páginas
“As piores dificuldades de um homem começam quando ele é capaz de fazer o que quer.”
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
Science and education - página 203, de Thomas Henry Huxley, Editora P.F. Collier, 1893, 381 páginas
Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified
Essays upon some controverted questions - Página 344, Thomas Henry Huxley - Macmillan, 1892 - 625 páginas
“Um mundo de fatos estende-se para além do mundo das palavras.”
Variante: Um mundo de factos estende-se para além do mundo das palavras.
Thomas Henry Huxley como citado em O Quebra Cabeça Da Criação - página 114 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=EzhRBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA114, Roberto Neves, Clube de Autores, 2009, 465 páginas
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Thomas Henry Huxley: Frases em inglês
"On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/EdVal.html
1850s
Contexto: I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission; and will, at any rate, view with suspicion those weakly amiable theories of the Divine government, which would have us believe pain to be an oversight and a mistake, — to be corrected by and by. On the other hand, the predominance of happiness among living things — their lavish beauty — the secret and wonderful harmony which pervades them all, from the highest to the lowest, are equally striking refutations of that modern Manichean doctrine, which exhibits the world as a slave-mill, worked with many tears, for mere utilitarian ends.
There is yet another way in which natural history may, I am convinced, take a profound hold upon practical life, — and that is, by its influence over our finer feelings, as the greatest of all sources of that pleasure which is derivable from beauty.
“Physiology, Psychology, Ethics, Political Science, must submit to the same ordeal.”
Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Contexto: The history of civilization details the steps by which men have succeeded in building up an artificial world within the cosmos. Fragile reed as he may be, man, as Pascal says, is a thinking reed: there lies within him a fund of energy, operating intelligently and so far akin to that which pervades the universe, that it is competent to influence and modify the cosmic process. In virtue of his intelligence the dwarf bends the Titan to his will. In every family, in every polity that has been established, the cosmic process in man has been restrained and otherwise modified by law and custom; in surrounding nature, it has been similarly influenced by the art of the shepherd, the agriculturist, the artisan. As civilization has advanced, so has the extent of this interference increased; until the organized and highly developed sciences and arts of the present day have endowed man with a command over the course of non-human nature greater than that once attributed to the magicians.... a right comprehension of the process of life and of the means of influencing its manifestations is only just dawning upon us. We do not yet see our way beyond generalities; and we are befogged by the obtrusion of false analogies and crude anticipations. But Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, have all had to pass through similar phases, before they reached the stage at which their influence became an important factor in human affairs. Physiology, Psychology, Ethics, Political Science, must submit to the same ordeal. Yet it seems to me irrational to doubt that, at no distant period, they will work as great a revolution in the sphere of practice.<!--pp.83-84
“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted”
Fonte: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 72
Contexto: Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth—tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.
1860s, A Liberal Education and Where to Find It (1868)
Contexto: The life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without haste, but without remorse.
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
"Address on University Education" (1876) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/Ad-U-Ed.html, delivered at the formal opening of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 12, 1876. Huxley, American Addresses (1877), p. 125. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey used the same words in a commencement address at the Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland, June 1967; reported in The Washington Post (June 11, 1967), p. K3
1870s
Contexto: I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?
Letter to Herbert Spencer (22 March 1886); this is often quoted with a variant spelling as: I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
1880s
Fonte: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1
1860s, Reply to Charles Kingsley (1860)
Contexto: 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.
Contexto: Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. 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.
“Science … commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
"The Darwin Memorial" (1885) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/DarM.html
1880s
“God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.”
As quoted in Nature Vol. 149 (Jan-Jun) 1942 p. 291, and A Philosophy for Our Time (1954) by Bernard Mannes Baruch, p. 13
1890s
1860s, On a Piece of Chalk (1868)
1860s, On a Piece of Chalk (1868)
Fonte: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.1 (1884 edition) http://books.google.com/books?id=1Z9DGVKfXuQC p. 28
Contexto: The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed—from the inorganic to the organic—from blind force to conscious intellect and will.
Universities, Actual and Ideal (1874)
1870s
Fonte: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 128
“Not far from the invention of fire… we must rank the invention of doubt.”
Collected Essays vol 6, viii; quoted in T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator (1950) by Cyril Bibby, p. 257
1890s
p, 125
Evolution and Ethics (1893)
"On The Natural Inequality of Men" (January 1890) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/NatIneq.html
1890s
“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Presidential Address at the British Association, "Biogenesis and abiogenesis" (1870) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE8/B-Ab.html; later published in Collected Essays, Vol. 8, p. 229
1870s
"On The Natural Inequality of Men" (January 1890)
1890s
Fonte: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 129
Autobiography (1890) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/AutoB.html
1890s
1860s, A Liberal Education and Where to Find It (1868)
Fonte: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 83
“Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.”
One of a series of exchanges when Richard Owen repeated generally repudiated claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture. Athenaeum (13 April 1861) p. 498; Browne Vol 2, p. 159
1860s
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”
1860s, A Liberal Education and Where to Find It (1868)
1860s, Criticisms on "The Origin of the Species" (1864)
"Emancipation — Black and White" (1865)
1860s