But science is one of the very few human activities - perhaps the only one - in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. (Karl Popper)

But science is one of the very few human activities - perhaps the only one - in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected.

Karl Popper

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