My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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