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|57 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br /> | |57 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]<br /> | ||
|58 = ''' | |58 = '''Nous nageons tous dans une mer dont nous n'avons jamais vu le rivage. Malheur à ceux qui se battent en nageant.''' (We are all swimming in a sea whose shore we have never seen. Ill luck to those who fight while swimming.)<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [ | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Voltaire]]<br /> | ||
|59 = '''Potential counts for nothing until it’s realized.'''<br /> | |59 = '''Potential counts for nothing until it’s realized.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
Revision as of 16:11, 16 May 2019
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
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing