"Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is……" — David Gross

"Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance."

— David Gross

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22 Quotes by David Gross

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I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and…
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas…
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from…
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of…
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce…
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical…
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the…
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware…
Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to…
Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

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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… — Isaac Asimov
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of… — Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning… — 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… — Sri Aurobindo
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which… — Teresa of Avila
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,… — Teresa of Avila
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the… — Lord Acton

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