"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists."
"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
Source: Biogenesis and Abiogenesis (1870)
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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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