Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter …

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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 (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.483, Penguin
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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 (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.483, Penguin

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