The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one

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The essence of science is that it is always willing...
The essence of science is that it is always willing...
The essence of science is that it is always willing...
The essence of science is that it is always willing...
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The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one. The words of this quote were written by Alfred North Whitehead, a British mathematician and philosopher. He is most famous for his work Process and Reality, in which he addressed the key question: what is the nature of reality? The book was published in 1910. The quote was not published until 1919.

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