anyone practically acquainted scientific work aware refuse go beyond f — Thomas Henry Huxley, Advance Science Last Half-Century

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But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.

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

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