The spirit of criticism is much commoner in the world than the spirit of invention, and progress has often been delayed by authors, who have refused to publish their conclusions until they could feel they had reached a pitch of certainty that was in fact unattainable. Progress in knowledge is more rapidly made by taking the chance of a certain number of errors, since both friends and enemies are only too pleased to exert their critical faculties in pointing out the errors; so they are soon corrected, and little harm is done.
Charles Galton Darwin
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