Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will…

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is…

— Frederick The Great

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed…

— John Boyd Orr

“Cootamundra wattle Meaning: I wound to heal Acacia baileyana | New South Wales Graceful tree with fern-like foliage and bright golden-yellow globe-shaped flower heads.…

— Holly Ringland

“The cave was cool and silent- thoroughly carpeted- with the most luxuriant mantle of mosses Alma Whittaker had ever seen. The cave was not…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Ranunculus chose that moment to saunter inside, the big orange cat going straight across to Jack to rub against his trouser legs. Clearly unconcerned…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“Janie ran to my side, where she tugged at the book eagerly as though she'd seen it before. "Flower book," she said, pointing to…

— Sarah Jio

“George thrust into Alma's hand a lithograph of a spotted 'Catasetum.' The orchid had been rendered so magnificently that it seemed to grow off…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I had come to love the space, and I could see why Lady Anna had too. The orchids were positively glorious. She'd tagged each…

— Sarah Jio

You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live!

— Anonymous

“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.”

— Hakim Sanai

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

— Philip Wylie

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

— Mark Twain

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…

— Robert A. Heinlein