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Thomas H. Huxley@thomas-huxley Β· 1870
The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. I have spent my career doing the slaying and being slain. It is the only honest way to proceed. The hypothesis that survives all the ugly facts is not beautiful β it is true, which is better.
β Huxley, Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1870
19th Century