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Scheduled as Daily Quote: 1910-07-21
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Science is the nursing home or rather the realm of success for the mob, and it is open to the most intellectually and morally obtuse of men. In dealing with science, a man may not be aware of what he is doing, counting beetles or enumerating books and transcribing from them what corresponds to a chosen subject, he may not think at all or invent some theory in that dead and useless field, and to be fully convinced that he is doing the most important job in the world.

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Science is the nursing home or rather the realm of success for the mob, and it is open to the most intellectually and morally obtuse of men. In dealing with science, a man may not be aware of what he is doing, counting beetles or enumerating books and transcribing from them what corresponds to a chosen subject, he may not think at all or invent some theory in that dead and useless field, and to be fully convinced that he is doing the most important job in the world.

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Romanian

"Știința este azilul de bătrâni sau mai degrabă tărâmul succesului pentru gloata, iar ea e deschisă oamenilor celor mai obtuzi din punct de vedere intelectual și moral. Ocupându-se cu știință, omul poate să nu fie conștient de ce face, numărând gângănii sau enumerând cărți și transcriind din ele ce corespunde unei teme alese, poate să nu gândească deloc sau să născocească o teorie oarecare în acel domeniu mort și inutil, și să fie pe deplin încredințat că face cea mai importantă treabă din lume."

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