Quotation by Thomas Henry Huxley

Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the
Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. 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.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #301, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).
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