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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
Psychologist
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Howard Earl Gardner
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