Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), popularly known as T H Huxley, was an eminent scientist in the department of natural history, born at Ealing, Middlesex. He was professor of Natural History in the Royal School of Mines. He was distinguished by his studies and discoveries in different sections of the animal kingdom, in morphology and palæontology.

T H Huxley was a zealous advocate of evolution, in particular the views of Darwin, and a champion of science against the orthodoxy of the Church. He was a man of eminent literary ability as well as scientific, and of the greatest in that regard among scientific men.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

- Biogenesis and Abiogenesis

• It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

- Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

• It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

- The Coming of Age of 'The Origin of Species'

George Brinton McClellan