The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not. (Aldo Leopold)

The ordinary citizen today assumes that science knows what makes the community clock tick; the scientist is equally sure that he does not.

Aldo Leopold

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