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Seth Lloyd

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Seth Lloyd

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Seth Lloyd is saying that science depends on testing ideas through experiments, and if someone does the experiment and it fails, then that idea isn't scientific. In other words, trying and potentially failing is essential to defining what counts as science.

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