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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

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Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

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We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

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Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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The more I know the less tortured I am.

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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

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The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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