Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. — Miguel de Unamuno

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

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La ciencia es un cementerio de ideas muertas.

Miguel de Unamuno

1913

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De Unamuno, Miguel. Del Sentimiento Tragico de la Vida [The Tragic Sense of Life]. Sociedad anónima Editorial, 1913, ch. 5.

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