The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where …

John Dewey
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to bluff. ✨ John Dewey (2015). Democracy and Education: Top American Authors, p.198, 谷月社
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