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• FIRST sight is less fallible, and as long as my intercourse with the world is of a passing kind, my feeling with regard to it is free from any doubt, resembling, as it does, that perfect consciousness which comes to us on better acquaintance with people, after we have thrown off prolonged and laboriously sustained illusions. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2
• But despite the fact that it is our humanity that constrains the science we have--fallible, in constant need of correction, and sometimes irrational--we imagine that we can glimpse a science beyond our natural bias, a way out of ourselves. —  Omni: June 1994
• The Scar is a deep and lyrical exploration of what it is to be mortal, fallible, and vulnerable. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002
• "Technology is fallible, and people relying on technology, especially the toll way authority, that has had numerous problems in the past," toll road user Phil Tripoli said. —  clickorlando.com - Local News
• You are quite right Larry that we need to make clear that science is fallible, and to be aware that even if the reader accords authority to the opinions of scientists, arguments must be judged on their own merits. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

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