"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
"Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature."
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Source: Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.79, Cambridge University Press
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