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Somewhere, and probably due to entropy and unplanned cell death I can’t remember where, Nietzsche remarks that as you grow older you see the naïvete of your younger writings, until you grow older still, at which point you see the naivete of those opinions. Another irreverent wit, Oscar Wilde (who also died in 1900), said one day that he had accomplished much: he had put in a comma in the morning and removed it again in the afternoon.
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Sagan, D. (1997). An Epistemological Afterword. In: Slanted Truths. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2284-2_24
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