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|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite>
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
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|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
|54 = '''[The reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Sir Thomas Browne<br />
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />

Revision as of 12:23, 17 September 2024

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
— Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
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