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May not our boasted knowledge be simply conditioned by accidental…

Quote byWilliam Crookes · 1832–1919

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address to the Society for Psychical Research (1897).

English (original)

May not our boasted knowledge be simply conditioned by accidental environments, and thus be liable to a large element of subjectivity hitherto unsuspected and scarcely possible to eliminate?

— William Crookes

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