"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
"Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes."
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Source: Thomas Henry Huxley (1873). “Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S”, p.7
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