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“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”

Knows World Science Knowledge Darkness Evidence Accounts Fantastic

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”

Knowledge Darkness Ignorance

Author:William Shakespeare

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies

“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”

Life Doe God Success Knowledge Darkness Circles

Author:Albert Einstein

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.”

“A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.”

“Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.”

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Book:Papers of a Pariah

Source: Papers of a Pariah

“I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.”

Wisdom Pain Lasts Knowledge Darkness Ignorance Worthless

Book:Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection

Source: Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection

“Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.”

World Song Knowledge Darkness Plunge

Book:The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon