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|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>
|07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite>
|08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />
|08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>

Revision as of 12:23, 17 September 2024

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 quotation about knowledge or writing