“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

—  John Dewey

The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
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Source: The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

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American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859–1952

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