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Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of… — Karl Popper
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Walter Houser Brattain
They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that… — Hans Blix
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in… — Susan C. Aldridge
Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking… — Frederic Joliot-Curie
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means… — Mary Everest Boole
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should… — Elizabeth Blackwell
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the… — Isabella Rossellini
The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase. — Anatoliy Golitsyn
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with… — Erich Fromm
I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide… — Jonas Salk
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences… — Aristotle
Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an… — Vladimir Putin
We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to… — Frank Lautenberg
Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever. — Catherine of Genoa
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. — David Rockefeller
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active… — Sidney Jourard
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,… — Thomas Jefferson
Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! — Peter Cundall

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