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“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.”

Knows Men Mind Firsts Two Running Natural Knowledge Ignorance Birth Pure Conscious Extremes Self Knowledge Back Again Great Minds Two Extremes

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”

Ifs Knows May Talking Knowledge Subjects Effects Pure Mathematics Defined Propositions Assertion True Knowledge

Author:Bertrand Russell

“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.”

Needs Reason Facts Form Faith Easy Knowledge Objects Involved Pure Eternal Historical Indifferent Absurdity Historical Knowledge

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.”

Pain Water Knowledge Pure Spring Application Digging Troublesome Without Pain Pure Water

Author:Tom Felton

“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.”

People Enjoy Justice Knowledge Learning Objects Industry Pure Hunger Right Thing Purity Thirst Industrious True Education Hunger And Thirst

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.”

Political Sound Knowledge Economy Conditions Pure Relation Mathematics Connected Astronomy Heat Branches Multitudes Mechanic Physical Science Political Economy Optics Connexion

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.”

Art Use Natural Class Knowledge Knowing Industry Pure Highest Models Slave Notion Worthy Engaged Customs Controlled Application Stigma Serfs

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924

“Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.”

Joy Knowledge Sadness Flower Pure Spring Pure Joy Flowers And Gardens

Book:Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928

Source: Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928

“In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.”

Men May Play Science Certain Knowledge Pure Ambition Discovery Accounts Curiosity Useless Ambitious Quests Sooner Or Later Physiology Misplaced

Book:Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart

Source: Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart

“Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.”

Men Has Beens Art Made Science Religion Knowledge Pure Capable Errors Sensitive Religion And Art

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.”

Ifs Men Mind Kind May Science Term Knowledge Teach Offers Pure Understood Accounts Increase Improvement Great Things Despise Acquisition Exertion Small Beginnings

Author:Michael Faraday

“One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”

Knows Looks Important Science Simple Knowledge Movement Building Pure Discovery Importance Accidents Mars Telescopes Satellites History Of Science

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It has become mathematical. The question now is, not whether this or that hypothesis is better or worse to the pure thought, but whether it accords with observed phenomena in those consequences which can be shown necessarily to follow from it, if it be true”

Ifs Has Beens Made Two Lasts Science Half Knowledge Century Pure Consequence Bases Mathematics Being True Observation Mathematical Hypothesis Accord

Book:A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

Source: A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan

“Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.”

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