"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
-Jules Verne
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"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.“
-Jules Verne
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