I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not t…

Walt Whitman
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I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open. ✨ Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). Walt Whitman's Camden conversations
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