What Richard Dawkins thinks about humility

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Evolutionary biologist and author; writes The Poetry of Reality newsletter on Substack.

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1. c. 2006

   Our readingAdmitting ignorance and temporary mystification is vital to good science

   Their wordsAdmissions of ignorance and temporary mystification are vital to good science.

   ↗The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)archive.org All 13 from this book