It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise c…

John Dewey
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It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education, p.227, SIU Press
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