PEDIATRICS Vol. 77 No. 3 March 1986, pp. 416
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ON KILLING THEORIES

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Human knowledge is a special case of animal knowledge. From amoeba to Einstein learning takes the same course: it starts from a problem caused by the clash between expectations and experience, proceeds to a solution, and then to the testing of that solution. With the emergence of science, failure need no longer be fatal: we can kill off our theories, instead `of being killed off ourselves.'


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