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The scientist is not the clever manipulator of instruments...

"The scientist is not the clever manipulator of instruments, he is the worshipper of nature and he bears the external symbols of his passion as does the follower of some religious order."  Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.8, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.

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