Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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).
