Thomas Huxley: 82 books

Invaluable reading for anyone passionate about the history of science, The Advance of Science in the Last Half Century presents a survey of the major developments in physics, chemistry, and biology from the mid to late 1800s. Huxley traces their impact on society and places them in the context of philosophical thought and scientific inquiry going back to Aristotle.

There are three ways of regarding any account of past occurrences, whether delivered to us orally or recorded in writing.

THE subject upon which I wish to address you to-night is the structure and origin of Coral and Coral Reefs. Under the head of “coral” there are included two very different things; one of them is that substance which I imagine a great number of us have champed when we were very much younger than we...

MR. DARWIN'S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have not yet wholly superseded the ambition and the vanity of the carnal man within him, he must be well...

MERCHANTS occasionally go through a wholesome, though troublesome and not always satisfactory, process which they term “taking stock. ” After all the excitement of speculation, the pleasure of gain, and the pain of loss, the trader makes up his mind to face facts and to learn the exact quantity and quality of his solid and reliable possessions.

IN the preceding five lectures I have endeavoured to give you an account of those facts, and of those reasonings from facts, which form the data upon which all theories regarding the causes of the phenomena of organic nature must be based. And, although I have had frequent occasion to quote Mr. Darwin—...

I DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and labours of a very noble Englishman— William Harvey.

What is life? This question gives a new interest to every department of science that relates to life in any form, and the history of life offers a most suggestive field for research. The paleontology took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a shell or a bone naturally...