Scientific Truth is Truth Without Fear

Published Jan 21, 2014 by ideonexus

Remember, then, that scientific thought is the guide of action; that the truth at which it arrives is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment of human progress, but human progress itself.

William Kingdon Clifford, The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (2012-01)

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It is the best we have, not perfect, but progress.

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The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences Book

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human progress, scientific thought, Scientific Truth, fear, accompaniment, error, guide, action