"Too much to know is to know naught but fame."
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"We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window."
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"Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn."
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"All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting."
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"If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom."
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"There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing."
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"We know more from nature than we can at will communicate."
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"Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood."
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"God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession."
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"To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom."
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"All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not."
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"Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know."
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"Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know."
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"If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards."
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"We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know.""
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"The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life."
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"Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure."
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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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"If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man."
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"All things are known to the soul."
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