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A Little Learning (1964)
“True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights—and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks, one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller, usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well—magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?”
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Stephen Jay Gould
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
"Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", p. 246
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)
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