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“Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.”

“Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.”

Fiction Ignorance Discovery Accounts Ancient Legends Biblical Brushes Archaeology

Author:Charlie Campbell

“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”

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Author:Robert Fagles

“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”

World Way Humans Ideas Used Ignorance Discovery Infinite Used To Be Portions Multitudes Milky Way Prodigious

Author:Horace Walpole

“There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.”

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Author:Jimmy Sangster

“Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.”

Known Opinion Democracy Modern Ignorance Research Discovery Majority Western Indifference Public Opinion Electorate

Book:Democracy ancient and modern

Source: Democracy ancient and modern

“It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.”

Interesting Levels Rich Nice Ignorance Discovery Adults Curves Steep Learning Curve

Author:Demetri Martin

“I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.”

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Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance”

Humans Has Beens Century Ignorance Discovery Accomplishment 20th Century

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”

Imagination Ignorance Discovery Frontiers

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance”

Found My Own Effort Doubt Effects Ignorance Discovery Errors Embarrassed

Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations

Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations

“A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.”

Mystery Ignorance Discovery Scientist Bored Assault

Author:Matt Ridley

“The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.”

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Author:Alan Watts

“This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.”

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Author:Proclus

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

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Author:Will Durant