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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:
This article was originally published with the title The Exquisite Balance.
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