"The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." ― Thomas Huxley Topic(s): Nature Tags: great, science, tragedy More From Thomas Huxley "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." "Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science." "The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals." More In Nature "I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity."― Lucy Powell "The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere."― Empedocles "External nature is only internal nature writ large."― Swami Vivekananda