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# Certainly we have seen spectacular changes in the concept of private property and of national borders as we have moved into the space age...

— Walter Orr Roberts

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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...

# Moreover, the pace of technological advance gravely threatens the bountiful and restorative power of nature to resist modification...

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

# Further, the findings of science have an embarrassing way of turning out to be relevant to the customs and to the civil laws of men—requiring these customs and laws also to be revised...

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