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Walter Orr Roberts on Science

1915–1990 United States

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# The trait that to me seems the most socially important about science, however, is that it is a major source of man's discontent with the status quo...

# Not only are the tenets of science constantly subject to challenge and revision, but its prophets are under challenge too...

# Science is constantly, systematically and inexorably revisionary. It is a self-correcting process and one that is self-destroying of its own errors...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Orr Roberts (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.