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«Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.»

«Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame»

«If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.»

«In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn»

«Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.»

«If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.»

«Information is not knowledge.»

«Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.»

«In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity»

«In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.»