Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate an…

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Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (1990). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company
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