Home / Library / Quotes / The Tragedy of Science Notable Quote "The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." — Huxley, Thomas Henry event 1870 content_copy check Context: From Huxley's presidential address, Biogenesis and Abiogenesis, to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1870, later collected in his Collected Essays (vol. 8, p. 229). Topics science Philosophy of Science menu_book Epistemology quiz Falsificationism verified Truth psychology_alt Critical Thinking