"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-Will Durant
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"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
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"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."
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"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
-Bertrand Russell
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
-Mary Kay Ash
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