"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."

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Source : 1855 Notebook entry, collected in Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts), vol.3 (published 1861-7, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).

Alexander Herzen

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