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KRISTINA ORFALI AND RAYMOND DE VRIES

“In America the purely practical part of science is admirably understood, and careful attention is paid to the theoretical portion which is immediately requisite to application. In this respect, Americans always display a clear, free, original, and inventive spirit: but there is hardly anyone in the United States who devotes himself to the essentially theoretical and abstract portion of human knowledge.”

Alexis de Tocqueville, Why the Americans are more addicted to Practical than to Theoretical Science p. 139 in Democracy in America, Vol. II, 1840