“Not far from the invention of fire… we must rank the invention of doubt.”

—  Thomas Henry Huxley

Collected Essays vol 6, viii; quoted in T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator (1950) by Cyril Bibby, p. 257
1890s

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