"I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist."
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"There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at."
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"The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions."
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"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain."
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"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."
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"If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day."
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"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."
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"I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance."
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"Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]"
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"Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value."
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"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
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"And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."
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"So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things."
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"People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it."
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"Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures."
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"The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities."
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"It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work."
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"The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
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"There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.""
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"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end."
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