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“In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave ..." It seems to me that the same is true of the much older [geological stratigraphical] history of Europe.”

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Author:D. V. Ager

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!”

“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”

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Author:D. H. Lawrence

“From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.”

“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”

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Author:Hypatia

“Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.”

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Author:David M. Raup

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Author:Marcel Proust

“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.”

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Author:Laurence Sterne

“Common sense is not so common.”

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Author:Voltaire

“A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”

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Author:George Wald

“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”

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Author:Lyall Watson

“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.”

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Author:Omar N. Bradley

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

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Book:Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

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Author:Dale Carnegie

“Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

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