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|04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).'''
|04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite>
|05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.'''<br />
|05 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the ''Panchatantra'' [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach<br /> </cite>
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop [[knowledge]] from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop [[knowledge]] from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite>
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|15 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old [[knowledge]] and acquiring new knowledge may become a [[teacher]] of others.'''<br />
|15 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old [[knowledge]] and acquiring new knowledge may become a [[teacher]] of others.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite>
|16 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br />
|16 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|17 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
|17 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite>
     (taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here])
     (taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here])
|27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br />
|27 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite>
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br />
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite>
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|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|38 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach<br /> </cite>
|40 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite>
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Latest revision as of 07:45, 16 October 2024

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
— Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
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