The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist [Thomas Henry Huxley]
“Biogenesis and Abiogenesis,” Presidential Address at the British Association (1870)

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