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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old ru

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. – William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910

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