Re: Source of quote

[Stephanie Smilay <stephani@smart.net>]

According to Barlett's, it's
The great tragedy of Science--the slaying of  a beautiful hypothesis by an
ugly fact.
T.H. Huxley
At 12:23 PM 06/05/2000 -0400, Peter Flom wrote:
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>Thanks
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>>>> Stephanie Smilay <stephani@smart.net> 06/05/00 12:13PM >>>
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>On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Peter Flom wrote:
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>> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 09:33:57 -0400
>> From: Peter Flom <peter.flom@ndri.org>
>> Reply-To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc 
>> To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc 
>> Subject: [QRList] Source of quote
>> 
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>> I have seen the following quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin, T. H.
>> Huxley, and Disraeli.  Does anyone have a definitive source?  TIA
>> 
>> "There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory
>> murdered by an ugly gang of facts"
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>A web search yielded
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>The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory
>by an ugly fact.
>               - Thomas Henry Huxley 
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>I also saw it as
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>"The great tragedy of Science  the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an
>ugly fact."     T. H. Huxley (1825-95), British biologist. 
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>But I think the first guy had it right.   The second guy had a better
>page, though:  check out
>http://sung3.ifsi.rm.cnr.it/~dargaud/Humor/QuotesScience.html 
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>I can be more definitive as to the exact wording of the quote when I get
>home (where my book of quotations is).
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>Stephanie