It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. ✨ Man's Place…

Thomas Huxley
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It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. ✨ Man's Place in Nature II (p. 126)
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Veracity is the heart of morality. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.123, Cambridge University Press
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