Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. Th…

John Dewey
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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. ✨ John Dewey (2015). Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors, p.15, 谷月社
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...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life. ✨ John Dewey (2005). Art as Experience, p.16, Penguin
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). The Later Works, 1925-1953: 193 … ▶
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ✨ The Quest for Certainty Ch. 11
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. ✨ William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Don … ▶
Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. ✨ William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). James and Dewey on Belief and Experience, p.212, University o … ▶

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. ✨ John Dewey (2015). Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors, p.15, 谷月社

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