托马斯·赫胥黎这个支持达尔文进化论的战友，说过，那些看起来不怎么好看，却温暖的装备可以抹杀漂亮的理论。

Thomas Huxley, Darwin's ally in the fight to get evolution accepted, spoke warmly of the facility with which ugly facts can kill beautiful theories.

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It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

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