Nothing gives more impetus to one’s intellectual development than some sort of independent research, and these studies of mine immensely helped me afterwards.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Nothing gives more impetus to one’s intellectual development than some sort of independent research, and these studies…”
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Kropotkin asserts that independent research is crucial for intellectual growth, a principle that guided his studies.
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