"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."
-Thomas Huxley
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"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.“
-Thomas Huxley
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
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