Science is greatly in need, from time to time, of such scientific speculations of a higher standard, made by a scrupulously laborious, critical, and at the same time, imaginative mind.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Science is greatly in need, from time to time, of such scientific speculations of a higher standard, made by a…”
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Kropotkin emphasizes the importance of imaginative thinking in scientific inquiry.
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