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

T.H. Huxley

1870

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis." British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. 1870, London, England, UK.

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