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• The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
  -- Thomas Henry Huxley...
• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
  -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Collected Essay...
• There is nothing so tragic as a beautiful theory destroyed by an ugly fact. -- Sherlock Holme
• There is no sadder sight in the world, than to see a beautiful theory killed by brutal fact.
  -- Thomas Huxley, biologist (1825-1895)...
• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
  It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencke...
• 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...
• As a matter of fact it IS rocket science.
• On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
  -- George Orwell (1903-1950), collected essay...
• We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. -- Aldous Huxley -- The Devils of Loudu