Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Me…

Thomas Huxley
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). Aphorisms and reflections
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