Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in er…

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Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p.52, Ballantine Books
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