Quote by Thomas Henry Huxley

"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's hand, they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense."

Thomas Henry Huxley Truth
Biologist and Paleontologist English 1825–1895

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