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“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.”

“With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.”

Men Firsts Kind Different Black Race Knowledge Sea Weapons First Time Philosophical Flags Heroism Pirate Armor Different Races High Seas

Author:Stefan Zweig

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”

World Hard Moving Dark Knowledge Forever Clear Imagine Sea Cold Mouths Historical Breasts Salt Symbolism

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”

Life Inspirational Knowledge Sea Mankind Positive Wind Sail Sailing Vessel Nautical Sailing And The Sea Thoughts And Thinking Wind Blowing Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love North Wind

Author:Augustus Hare

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”

Littles Knowledge Sea Ocean Beach Islands Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean Sea And Beach Cool Beach

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”

Doe Science Grows Knowledge Learning Sea Ignorance Ocean Ignorant Islands Shore Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”

Knowledge Sea Ignorance Swim Swimming Wet Stupidity And Ignorance Knowledge And Ignorance Phantom Tollbooth Motivational Swimming

Author:Norton Juster

“I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.”

“Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.”

“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.”

“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.”

Knows Men May Long Facts Science Knowledge Sea Theory Safety Ships All Time Speculation

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science