Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the …

Thomas Huxley
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Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Collected Essays, p.52, Cambridge University Press
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