"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
"Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man."
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Source: Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
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