'"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.” Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.'
Reading this passage in a 21st century novel would have been great; to read this in a 19th century novel has left me spell bound.
— Mar 02, 2026 12:20AM
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