The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Thomas Henry Huxley
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge (1866), in Autobiography and Selected Essays, edited by Ada L. F. Snell (1909); Complete public-domain sentence from his essay’s closing discussion of evidence and authority. Surrounding paragraphs and conclusion read; Huxley’s own essay, not the v
- On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge (1866), in Autobiography and Selected Essays, edited by Ada L. F. Snell (1909)
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