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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite> | ||
|03 = '''Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.'''<br /> | |03 = '''Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Jackson | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Jackson Browne]], ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite> | ||
|04 = '''Knowledge is power.'''<br /> | |04 = '''Knowledge is power.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the [[Panchatantra|Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the [[Panchatantra|Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</cite> | ||
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br /> | |06 = '''It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] ( | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | ||
|07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br /> | |07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Louis de Bernières]] (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Louis de Bernières]] (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903-1998)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903-1998)</cite> | ||
|10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br /> | |10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] ( | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920–1992)</cite> | ||
|11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br /> | |11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Khalil Gibran]] ( | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Khalil Gibran]] (1883–1931)</cite> | ||
|12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.'''<br /> | |12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Fuller]] (1810-1850)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Fuller]] (1810-1850)</cite> | ||
Revision as of 10:04, 10 April 2010
That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense.
— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory
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