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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas Huxley
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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
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We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
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Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
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