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Ignorance Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you…
- Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody…
- Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
- Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
- I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
- Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
- ... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing…
- ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
- God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
- Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
- The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
More Ignorance Quotes
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton