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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.

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 1973), Book VIII. Sunset and Sunrise, Chapter 73, Page 795
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  • Book: Middlemarch
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: fiction
  • Published: 1872
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