"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
"A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost."
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Source: Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
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