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“The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

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Book:How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication

Source: How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication

“Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.”

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Book:The Naked Sun

Source: The Naked Sun

“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.”

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Book:The Naked Sun

Source: The Naked Sun

“You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.”

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Book:The Spinoza Problem: A Novel

Source: The Spinoza Problem: A Novel

“The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions.”

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Author:Lewis Thomas

“To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.”

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Author:George Porter