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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
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|31 = '''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.'''<br /> | |31 = '''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.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report of the European Commission]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report of the European Commission]<br /> | ||
|32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /> | |||
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Revision as of 20:36, 3 December 2009
That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense.
— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory
—add a quote about knowledge or writing