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|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop [[knowledge]] from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop [[knowledge]] from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite>
|07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br />
|08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite>
|08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, [[ignorance]].'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903–1998)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903–1998)</cite>
|10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920–1992)</cite>
|11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br />
|11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Khalil Gibran (1883–1931)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Khalil Gibran (1883–1931)</cite>
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|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite>
|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin Robbins in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite>
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
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|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br />
|54 = '''[The reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Sir Thomas Browne<br />
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />

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Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.
— John Milton

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