Tag: Robert Schell
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“No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money-changer”: Who said it first?
Robert SchellBrooklyn, New York In these days of rampant biomedical commercialization, the Bible-inspired admonition “No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money-changer” takes on added urgency. The quotation’s usual attribution to Sir Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century English physician-writer, gives the words added moral and philosophical heft.1 While most authors…