Scientific men get an awkward habit — no, I won't call it that, for it is a valuable habit — of believing nothing unless there is evidence for it; and they have a way of looking upon belief which is not based upon evidence, not only as illogical, but as immoral.

— Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Hebrew Tradition (1882)

Cited via William Trufant Foster's Argumentation and Debating (1908), p. 55.

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