Quote of the Day - 23 December 2006

By tqa on December 22, 2006.

"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

--Thomas Henry Huxley

"The Coming of Age of the 'Origin of Species'"

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