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Thomas Huxley Quotes: It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
         

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.


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