"My reflection when I first made myself master of the central idea of the Origin was, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that.""

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Another version of this quotation, omitting the "of me" phrase, appears in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S (1900) edited by Leonard Huxley, p. 170