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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry ca

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. – Thomas Huxley

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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