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Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

Allan Sandage

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Allan Sandage
Age: 84 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 18
Died: 2010
Died: November 13
Astronomer
Iowa City
Iowa
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