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All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day… — Thomas Huxley
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high… — Carl G. Fisher
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. — George Polya
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in… — Leo Szilard
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat… — Barack Obama
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized… — Charles Lyell
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There… — Louis Agassiz
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods… — Charles Darwin
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have… — Thomas Hobbes
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either… — Michael Faraday
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… — Carl Sagan
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer… — Richard Hamming
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the… — Benjamin Disraeli
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of… — Willis R. Whitney
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as… — Thomas Carlyle
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I… — Thomas Huxley
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… — Benjamin Franklin
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. — Enrico Fermi
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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