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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://tinyurl.com/nglnfo Susan Hockfield] (neuroscientist)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://tinyurl.com/nglnfo Susan Hockfield] (neuroscientist)</cite> | ||
|16 = '''Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br /> | |16 = '''Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850-1894)</cite> | ||
|17 = '''Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br /> | |17 = '''Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] (1809-1894)</cite> | ||
|18 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others.'''<br /> | |18 = '''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> | ||
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The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
— MASIS report of the European Commission
—add a quote about knowledge or writing