dawn exact knowledge present day, observation, experiment, speculation — Thomas Henry Huxley, Advance Science Last Half-Century

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From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.

Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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