"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
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Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
Thomas Huxley was a prominent English biologist known for his defense of Darwin's theory of evolution and his contributions to scientific thought.
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Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."