Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagi…

John Dewey
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses. ✨ William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). James and Dewey on Belief and Experience, p.212, University of Illinois Press
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