I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think…

Thomas Huxley
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I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. ✨ 'Collected Essays' (1893-94) 'On Descartes' 'Discourse on Method (written 1870)
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