The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist [Thomas Henry Huxley]

“On the Reception of the Origin of Species” (1887)

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