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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

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How little we know of what there is to know.

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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

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Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

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

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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All difficulties are easy when they are known.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

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By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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