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Category Archives: Knowledge
James Thurber on Questions
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” Continue reading
Alec Bourne on Education
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” Continue reading
Douglas Adams on the Universe
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” Continue reading
Will Rogers on Ignorance
“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” Continue reading
Frank Herbert on Knowledge
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” Continue reading
Neil Armstrong on Mystery
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Continue reading
R. Buckminster Fuller on Science
“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Knowledge
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” Continue reading
Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” Continue reading
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