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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

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I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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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.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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