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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.450, Basic Books
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.