It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignoranc…

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It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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