"The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone."

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Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

— E. O. Wilson