Thomas Huxley Quotes

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

I'm really open to everything.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

You have to be open to everything.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

I like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly.

However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.