“My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.”
— Ann Druyan
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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.”
— Thomas Friedman
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“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
— Carl Jung
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“With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.”
— Orville Wright
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“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
— Lord Chesterfield
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“The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.”
— Orson Scott Card
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“It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.”
— Strom Thurmond
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“One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.”
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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“And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.”
— John Sergeant Wise
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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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