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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.
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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
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