"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability." ― Thomas Huxley Topic(s): Nature Tags: always, imagination, restrains, scientific More From Thomas Huxley "The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." "The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us." "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." More In Nature "Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame."― Tertullian "I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it."― Montel Williams "It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."― Robert Shea