To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

— Thomas Henry Huxley, On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences (1854)

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=FJZWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA29

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