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“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.”

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Author:Joseph Paxton

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

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Author:John Naisbitt

“Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“All true knowledge contradicts common sense.”

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Author:Mandell Creighton

“The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”

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Author:Marvin Minsky

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

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Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

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Author:Baron d'Holbach

“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.”

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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