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This apparatus is so highly specialized that it requires more labor to acquire ability to use and understand it than to get skill in any other instrumentalities possessed by man.
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John Dewey
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Editor's note · Context
Dewey notes the specialized nature of scientific knowledge, which requires significant effort to master.
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