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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a m

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. – Robin G. Collingwood

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I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy. – Bertrand Russell, Icarus, or the Future of Science, 1925

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Science is the topography of ignorance. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. – Martin Henry Fischer

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