"The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
― Thomas Huxley
Topic(s):
Nature
More From Thomas Huxley
- "The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
- "No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man."
- "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer."
More In Nature
- "We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous."― David Suzuki
- "Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."― Christopher Lasch
- "Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial."― Bodhidharma