Indefinitely Perfectible

The methods of science aren't foolproof, but they are indefinitely perfectible.  Just as important: there is a tradition of criticism that enforces improvement whenever and wherever flaws are discovered.

-- Daniel Clement Dennett III (1942 - 2024), American atheist philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist, "Postmodernism and Truth", delivered at the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy (13 August 1998)