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" Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. "
Carl Sagan
Thinking
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" Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative. "
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" Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. "
William Penn
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" A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. "
Carl Sagan
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" Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. "
George Bernard Shaw
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" I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. "
Frederick Sanger
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" The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. "
Carl Sagan
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" Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. "
Stephen Hawking
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" Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. "
Princess Diana
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" The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. "
Daniel J. Boorstin
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" We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. "
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" There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. "
Napoleon Hill
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Quality
" Democracy is not just about voting but about informed voting. If democracy doesn't have access to reliable sources of information and instead relies on social proof, then there is no way of distinguishing between junk evidence and actual knowledge. "
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Knowledge
" I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. "
Carl Sagan
Science
Education
School
" The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. "
Arthur Miller
Tree
Knowledge
Back
" I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. "
Confucius
Knowledge
Am
Born
" In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. "
Carl Sagan
Will
Up
Save
" Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. "
Thucydides
Intelligence
Bold
Ignorance
" You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves. "
Evel Knievel
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Blame
Fall
" Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge. "
Hakeem Olajuwon
Basketball
Me
Knowledge
" Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "
Warren Buffett
You
Risk
Not Knowing
" When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. "
Carl Sagan
Yourself
You
Light
" Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. "
Don Miguel Ruiz
Ignore
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Truth
" Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. "
Carl Sagan
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Space
Seem
" Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Where
True
Shouting
" Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. "
Brian O'Driscoll
Salad
Knowing
Fruit
" Knowledge is love and light and vision. "
Helen Keller
Light
Love
Vision
" Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. "
Carl Sagan
Go
Will
Never
" I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions. "
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Human
Intelligence
Evolution
" The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. "
Isaac Asimov
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Now
" Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Knowledge