The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any ho…

Thomas Huxley
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Collected Essays, p.244, Cambridge University Press
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Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.359, University of Georgia Press
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Collected Essays, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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