| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 583 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) |
| QUOTATION: | Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, letter to Charles Kingsley, September 23, 1860.—Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, vol. 1, p. 235 (1900, reprinted 1979).
See also No. 263. |
| SUBJECTS: | Facts |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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