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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)</cite> | |||
|02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.'''<br /> | |02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite> | ||
|03 = '''Share your knowledge. | |03 = '''Share your [[knowledge]]. It's a way to achieve [[immortality]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Jackson Browne, ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite> | ||
|04 = ''' | |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> | |||
|05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.'''<br /> | |05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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;"> | <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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite> | ||
|08 = '''There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.'''<br /> | |08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, [[ignorance]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite> | ||
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br /> | |09 = '''Trust yourself. You [[knowledge|know]] more than you [[thought|think]] you do.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— 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;"> | <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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Khalil Gibran (1883–1931)</cite> | ||
|12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their | |12 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)</cite> | ||
|13 = '''A word after a word after a word is power.'''<br /> | |13 = '''A [[word]] after a word after a word is [[power]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Atwood]] (1939-)</cite> | ||
|14 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<br /> | |14 = '''[[Writing]] is one of the most [[effectiveness|effective]] ways to [[learning|develop]] [[thinking]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Syrene Forsman, ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite> | ||
|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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Susan Hockfield (neuroscientist)</cite> | ||
|16 = '''Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br /> | |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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] (1809–1894)</cite> | ||
|18 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others.'''<br /> | |18 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old [[knowledge]] and acquiring new knowledge may become a [[teacher]] of others.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite> | ||
|19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br /> | |19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite> | ||
|20 = '''Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.'''<br /> | |20 = '''Who dares to [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite> | ||
|21 = '''Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | |21 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite> | ||
|22 = '''Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.'''<br /> | |22 = '''Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite> | ||
|23 = '''Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.'''<br /> | |23 = '''Nothing you [[action|do]] is [[importance|important]], but it is very important that you do it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br /> | |24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a windowpane.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), French [[physicist]] and [[Math|mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | ||
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | |26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite> | ||
(taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here]) | (taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here]) | ||
|27 = '''Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'''<br /> | |27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite> | ||
|28 = ''' | |28 = '''[[Word]]s are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American physicist</cite> | ||
|30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.'''<br /> | |30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it [[work]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]</cite> | ||
|32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br /> | |32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite> | ||
|33 = '''[[Knowledge]] is not simply another [[commodity]]. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by [[diffusion]] and grows by [[dispersion]].'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Daniel Boorstin]]<br /></cite> | |||
|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite> | |||
|35 = '''All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite> | |||
|36 = '''Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite> | |||
|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> | |||
|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> | |||
|40 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br /> | |||
<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 /> | |||
<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 /> | |||
<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 /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Wislawa Szymborska<br /> | |||
|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> | |||
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br /> | |||
<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 /> | |||
<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 /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite> | |||
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br /> | |||
|50 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite> | |||
|51 = '''Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Red Smith</cite> | |||
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br /> | |||
|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br /> | |||
|54 = '''[The reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.''' | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br /> | |||
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Sir Thomas Browne<br /> | |||
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.''' | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<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 /> | |||
|58 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman<br /> | |||
|59 = '''The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous, attributed to [[Isaac Asimov]]<br /> | |||
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
— Albert Einstein
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