"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
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"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise."
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"All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions."
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"The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal."
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"We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge."
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"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."
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"The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable."
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"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
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"If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes."
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"Know what you do not know."
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"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
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"He knows the universe and does not know himself."
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
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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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"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
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"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
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"Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness."
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"To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge."
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