Thomas Henry Huxley

Biologist and science advocate, 1825-1895

Cited as Huxley. — 12 quotations

Agamogenetic

All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock.

Back

The chalk cliffs which back the beach.

Chorology

Its distribution or chorology.

Dermic

Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified.

Eon

The eons of geological time.

Exuviate

There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year.

Hither

To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.

Physicism

Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.

Purposive

It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these.

Saltation

We greatly suspect that nature does make considerable jumps in the way of variation now and then, and that these saltations give rise to some of the gaps which appear to exist in the series of known forms.

Sweeper

It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy.

Synchrony

Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony.