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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite> | ||
|42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br /> | |42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— David McCullough, from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite> | ||
|43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br /> | |43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Wislawa Szymborska<br /> | ||
|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> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite> | ||
|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br /> | |46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin Robbins in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<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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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
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