The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin. – Thomas Henry Huxley, Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews, 1871

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