George Eliot quote about conscience from Middlemarch - Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
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“ Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ”
 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation

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Author George Eliot
Source Middlemarch
Topic conscience mistake science dogma
Date 1872
Language English
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George Eliot quote about conscience from Middlemarch - Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot quote about conscience from Middlemarch - Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.