Quote#Education
Science has taught... me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps…
Quote byThomas Henry Huxley · 1825–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reply to Charles Kingsley (1860).
English (original)
Science has taught... me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
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