Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere sci…

John Dewey
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Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Joe R. Burnett (2008). The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1899-1901, p.145, SIU Press
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