"The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

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German: ""Die große Tragödie der Wissenschaft"

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Presidential Address at the British Association, "Biogenesis and abiogenesis" (1870); later published in Collected Essays, Vol. 8, p. 229