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Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

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