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John Dewey

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

1859–1952

3 quotes, most often on Thinking.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
- Science
Reason is experimental intelligence, conceived after the pattern of science, and used in the creation of social arts; it has something to do. It liberates man from the bondage of the past, due to ignorance and accident hardened into custom. It projects a better future and assists man in its realization.
- Thinking
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
Experience and Nature (1925), Ch. VI: Nature, Mind and the Subject
- Thinking

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