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Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes: Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
         

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.


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