Ignorance Quote by Phil Plait Download Open image “When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.” — Phil Plait ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance Physics Universe
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill. Because it turns out that the most… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too… — Plato Copy Share Image
“ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things no one… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube.… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.” — Hakim Sanai Copy Share Image
You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
