Ideas Quote by John B. S. Haldane

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

— John B. S. Haldane

Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?

— Aristotle

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number,…

— Comte De Buffon

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations…

— Paul Kantner

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.

— Rita Mae Brown

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with.…

— Samuel R. Delany

“It is a type of science originally advocated 2,400 years ago by the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who said, “There are, in effect, two…

— T. Colin Campbell

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new…

— Ann Brashares

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

— Dan Simmons

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

— Milan Kundera

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

— George Bernard Shaw