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“That which cures all worldly miseries, is called Scientific Knowledge.”
“I was not alone in my success, only in my failure.”
“The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.”
“There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if its mine.”
“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks d...”
“A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.”
“We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.”
“A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.”
“Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.”
“Don't be ashamed for lack of knowledge. The real crime is having but not using it”
“It is the right of the positive scientist, the logician, the mathematician, and the physicist, to remain within his scientific tradition and to abstain from concerning himself with its origin and i...”
“If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.”
“It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.”
“In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone”
“Burning cocaine is the worst smell in the world. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison combined. A friend of mine once told me, that when you want to know something about anything, put some...”
“He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.”
“Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest tal...”
“An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and...”
“The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.”
“Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.”
