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"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty, that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man"
Richard P. Feynman, Physicist
"Well, all I know is what I read in the papers"
Will Smith, Actor
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers!"
Aldo Leopold, Environmentalist
"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Depend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet
"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joyous"
Carl Sagan, Scientist
"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works"
Carl Sagan, Scientist
"I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star"
Carl Sagan, Scientist
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value"
Carl Sagan, Scientist
"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it"
Carl Sagan, Scientist
"Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do"
Harper Lee, Novelist
"Mathematical discoveries, small or great, are never born of spontaneous generation"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on"
George Clooney, Actor
"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee, who destroys a good book, kills reason its self"
John Milton, Poet
"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula"
Roland Barthes, Critic
"Ritual is necessary for us to know anything"
Ken Kesey, Author
"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet"
Joseph Joubert, Writer
"With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!"
Orville Wright, Inventor
"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind, as well as for the body"
Margaret Fuller, Critic
"Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
"What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know"
Loretta Young, Actress
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand"
Neil Armstrong, Astronaut
"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand"
Neil Armstrong, Astronaut
"Who's to say who's an expert?"
Paul Newman, Actor
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders"
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician
"It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them"
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again"
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician
"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding"
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist
"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world"
Stephen Fry, Comedian
"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"Reading builds the educated and informed electorate, so vital to our democracy"
Brad Henry, Politician
"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power"
Alvin Toffler, Author
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