Thomas Henry HuxleyAgnosticism is, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That principle is of great antiquity; it is as old as Socrates; as old as the writer who said, 'Try all things, hold fast by that which is good'; it is the foundation of the Reformation, which simply illustrated the axiom that every man should be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him, it is the great principle of Descartes; it is the fundamental axiom of modern science.
Agnosticism is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle: 'Try all things, hold fast by that which is good.'
Agnosticism is simply the idea that a man shall not say he knows or believes which he has no grounds in professing in the first place.
Aristotle is of the belief that all irregularities in nature can be attributed to the disobedience, or sluggish yielding, of matter to the shaping and guiding influence of those reasons and causes which were hypostatised in his ideal 'Forms.'.
Common sense is science exactly so far as it fulfils t.he ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are. or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment.
The Hypothesis is a beautiful thing which science is always prepared to slay with an ugly fact.
A Man is a queer animal - a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice.
Natural history is a field, the knowledge of which makes a sea-side stroll a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art.
Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Rene Descartes is guilty of having overestimate the value of deductive reasoning from general principles, as much as Bacon had underestimated it.
