Carl Sagan Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Science Quotes

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

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I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

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If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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The more I know the less tortured I am.

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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

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[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.

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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

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