"In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion."
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"This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered."
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"Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it."
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"Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results."
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"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."
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"Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology."
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"Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing."
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"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise."
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"We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything."
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"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."
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"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."
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"It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything."
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"I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me"
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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
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"Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding"
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"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."
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