Quotation by

Karl Marx

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Karl Marx

Science

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Marx is saying that the time it takes to recreate scientific knowledge is much less than the time it originally took to develop it, so its worth is underestimated. This means the true value of science isn’t reflected by the effort needed to simply copy or use it later.

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