Thomas Henry Huxley Quote

The great danger which besets all men of large speculative faculty, is the temptation to deal with the accepted statements of facts in natural science, as if they were not only correct, but exhaustive; as if they might be dealt with deductively, in the same was a proposition in Euclid may be dealt with.


In: Francis Darwin (ed.), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (Volume 1)


The great danger which besets all men of large speculative faculty, is the temptation to deal with the accepted statements of facts in natural...

The great danger which besets all men of large speculative faculty, is the temptation to deal with the accepted statements of facts in natural...

The great danger which besets all men of large speculative faculty, is the temptation to deal with the accepted statements of facts in natural...

The great danger which besets all men of large speculative faculty, is the temptation to deal with the accepted statements of facts in natural...