"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."

Auden, W. H. on science   

"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."

Bohr, Niels on science
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"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries."

Bush, Vannevar on science   

"Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on science   

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."

Cronenberg, David on science
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"Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency"

Dickinson, Emily on science
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"Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on science   

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence."

Franklin, Benjamin on science
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"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."

Koestler, Arthur on science   

"Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are."

Krasel, Cornelius on science   

"Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl."

Adams, Mike on science   

"No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water."

Burroughs, William S. on physics   

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

Shaw, George Bernard on cleverness
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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on cleverness   

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."

Wilde, Oscar on lies and lying
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Frost, Robert on hell
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"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be."

Marlowe, Christopher on hell
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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