"Scientific theories can always be improved and are improved. That is one of the glories of science. It is the authoritarian view of the Universe that is frozen in stone and cannot be changed, so that once it is wrong, it is wrong forever."
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Isaac Asimov, "The Nearest Star" (1989); reprinted in The Secret of the Universe (1992), p. 82
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