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Science 1 July 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5731, pp. 76 - 77
DOI: 10.1126/science.309.5731.76

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In Praise of Hard Questions

Tom Siegfried

On Science's 125th anniversary, we celebrate the great, hard questions that point to critical gaps in our scientific knowledge. The process of figuring out what we don't know makes science forever self-renewing--and demolishes the notion that science's job will ever be done.

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