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“Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.”

Way Firsts Left Knowledge Tasks Dues Broke Successors

Book:Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”

Success Left Business Knowledge New York Band Limits Self Improvement University Average Business Success Music Business

Author:Alan Greenspan

“From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.”

Knows House Left Wish Knowledge Perspective Towns Towers Rise Above

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.”

“There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.”

Should Light Science Left Knowledge Doctors Left Alone

Author:Griffin Jay

“Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.”

Science Religion Universe Left Knowledge Magic Subjects Evidence Discovery Aspect Careful Available Improvement Defined Logical Examination Corrections Search For Knowledge

Book:The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

“If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.”

Source: The Grammar of Science

“Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.”

Men Believe Wells Mean Stills Different Use Law Science Found Belief Left My Own Numbers Knowledge Groups Fields Research Method Oil Pool Barrels Prospecting

Author:Charles Kettering