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Understanding science: what we cannot know
...techniques in his efforts to do so. But his path to glory was not smooth. In fact, it turned out that the first paper he submitted to the competition – the paper for which he won the prize – had a serious error. This was discovered while the paper was being prepared for publication. Fortunately, Poincaré was able to correct the error before the prize ceremony....
