Thomas Huxley

Thomas Huxley wrote that “Science is organized common sense, where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.” .

Huxley

Huxley once said that there's nothing more tragic in science than the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Science

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly... Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

by an ugly fact

Like many a beautiful theory, though, many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

many a beautiful theory

Like many a beautiful theory, though, many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

that said something about a beautiful theory being murdered by ugly facts

Who was Who that said something about a beautiful theory being murdered by ugly facts?

The scrappy 19th-century champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection

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”.

E. Y. Science 'Science

Harburg, E. Y. Science 'Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.'

The famous biologist T.H. Huxley

The famous biologist T.H. Huxley once said, 'the great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

Francis Galton

In addition, in 1908 Francis Galton presented an alternative phrase: “a beautiful theory, killed by a nasty, ugly little fact”.

the tragedy of science

As the proverb goes, the tragedy of science is a beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.

slain by an ugly fact

As the proverb goes, the tragedy of science is a beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.

The great tragedy of science

a half ago, the great tragedy of science is a beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.

beautiful ideas have a nasty tendency to fall foul to ugly facts

In science beautiful ideas have a nasty tendency to fall foul to ugly facts.

one of the tragedies of science:

the gravy problem is one of the tragedies of science: the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.

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™s observation that many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact is an often ignored truth.

the gravy problem

the gravy problem is one of the tragedies of science: the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.

Keynesianism

Like many beautiful theories, however, Keynesianism has ultimately succumbed to the ugly facts.

Tom Myers

As a teacher of mine, Tom Myers, will say, “There’s nothing more sad than the destruction of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.”

Mr Obama's plans

Mr Obama's plans was, as scientists sometimes say, a beautiful hypothesis destroyed by a single ugly fact.