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The Exquisite Balance

Science helps us understand the essential tension
between orthodoxy and heresy in science
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In a 1987 lecture entitled “The Burden of Skepticism,” astronomer Carl Sagan succinctly summarized the delicate compromise between tradition and change: (continue reading…)

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