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• The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
  -- Thomas Henry Huxley...
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. -- Mark Twai
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• There is nothing so tragic as a beautiful theory destroyed by an ugly fact. -- Sherlock Holme
• The great tragedy of Science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
  T.H. Huxley ['Collected Essays', 1894 ]...
• Some are born to move the world--to live their fantasies, but must of us just dream about the things we'd like to be.
  Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known....
• If the sight of a beautiful rainbow no longer excites you, than you had better prepare to pack it in - you are already dead.
• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
  Thomas H. Huxley...