The scrappy 19th - century champion of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection once spoke of «the great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact». (newscientist.com)
«The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.» (drtimball.com)
Everything they do suffers from the T. H. Huxley truth; «The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.» (drtimball.com)