Ignorance Quote by Victor Hugo

“I mean that man is ruled by a tyrant whose name is Ignorance, and that is the tyrant I sought to overthrow. That is…

— Victor Hugo

“But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. ”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”104”

— James Madison

“...that kind of skeptical questioning, don't accept what authority tells you -attitude of science- is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary…

— Carl Sagan

“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting…

— B.F. Skinner

“The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“I am troubled by grave doubts about the usefulness of scientific endeavor and have a whole drawer filled with treatises on politics and their…

— Albert Szent-Györgyi

“Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.”

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.”

— Frans de Waal

“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm…

— Marie Brennan