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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothes

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. – Thomas Huxley

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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. – Thomas Huxley

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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. – Thomas Huxley

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