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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).

See also No. 263.
SUBJECTS: Facts
 


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