“If along the path of truth, success (which was often near-failure unnoticed) is subjected to the same scrutiny and desire for improvement as failure, we may find ourselves in closer proximity to trees.”

[Hans Reichenbach, The rise of scientific philosophy, University of California Press, 1951, 0520010558, 326]

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