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|04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus [[knowledge]] itself is [[power]]).'''<br /> | |04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus [[knowledge]] itself 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> | ||
|05 = ''' | |05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the ''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]] (1901–1954)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | ||
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|15 = '''[[Writing]], the painful process of transforming three-dimensional, parallel-processed experience into two-dimensional, linear narrative.'''<br /> | |15 = '''[[Writing]], the painful process of transforming three-dimensional, parallel-processed experience into two-dimensional, linear narrative.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Susan Hockfield (neuroscientist)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Susan Hockfield (neuroscientist)</cite> | ||
|16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be | |16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)</cite> | ||
|17 = '''Man's [[mind]] stretched to a new [[idea]] never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br /> | |17 = '''Man's [[mind]] stretched to a new [[idea]] never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] (1809–1894)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] (1809–1894)</cite> | ||
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|27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br /> | |27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite> | ||
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only | |28 = '''[[Word]]s are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite> | ||
|29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | |29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | ||
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|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br /> | |34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite> | ||
|35 = '''All the | |35 = '''All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite> | ||
|36 = ''' | |36 = '''Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite> | ||
|37 = '''Real | |37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite> | ||
|38 = '''Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our [[morale|moral being]], since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the [[symbolism]]s whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br /> | |38 = '''Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our [[morale|moral being]], since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the [[symbolism]]s whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br /> | ||
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|39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | |39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]<br /> </cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]<br /> </cite> | ||
|40 = '''The beginning of | |40 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite> | ||
|41 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br /> | |41 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite> | ||
|42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br /> | |42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— David McCullough, from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite> | ||
|43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br /> | |43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Wislawa Szymborska<br /> | ||
|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and | |44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | ||
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br /> | |45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite> | ||
|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br /> | |46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin Robbins in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite> | ||
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br /> | |47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite> | ||
Revision as of 15:28, 9 March 2024
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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