"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
"My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!'"
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Source: On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species' (1888)
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