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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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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. – Thomas Huxley

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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. – Thomas Huxley

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. – Thomas Huxley

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace. – Elbert Hubbard

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Great is the difference betwixt a mans being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. – Thomas Fuller

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