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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Knowledge without ethics is like an airplane without a pilot.
Michael Josephson
Knowledge is power, but it is power for good or evil.
John Milton
The true test of knowledge is not how much we know, but how we behave when we don't know.
John Holt
Knowledge is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Terry Goodkind
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever-increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth.
Paul Feyerabend
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler
The responsibility of the learner is to ask questions, seek answers, and challenge assumptions.
Terry Heick
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
The truth is not always what we want to hear.
Unknown
The truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. A lie is like a painkiller. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.
Unknown
The mark of an educated mind is to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
The function of skepticism is to challenge accepted beliefs and dogma, to ask questions, and to demand evidence.
Michael Shermer
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
Skepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis Diderot
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
The dogmatist is a more serious character than the mere bigot. He is the prisoner of a system; he is the soul of a system enclosed within his own limitations and his own assumptions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dogmatism has its root in moral certitude, the enemy of inquiry and evidence-based thinking.
Stephen Jay Gould
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
Dogmatism is the enemy of intellectualism.
E. O. Wilson
The dogmatist is a person who speaks with certainty about things that he knows nothing about.
Charles F. Kettering
Dogmatism is the arrogance of certainty.
A. C. Grayling
Dogmatism is the biggest obstacle to critical thinking. It is the enemy of inquiry, evidence, and reason.
Steven Novella
Dogmatism is the enemy of progress. It stifles creativity and innovation.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dogmatism is the enemy of truth. It blinds us to new ideas and prevents us from learning from our mistakes.
Carl Sagan
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
Ken Robinson
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
Bryant H. McGill
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
Akio Morita
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Meryl Streep
The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size.
Albert Einstein
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
John A. Simone Jr.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The important thing is not to know all the answers, but to know where to find them.
Albert Einstein
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask.
Tony Robbins
The power of asking questions is that it allows you to see beyond what is visible.
Anonymous
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
Certainty is the enemy of growth.
Unknown
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The mind is like a parachute; it works best when it's open.
Frank Zappa
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
The first step toward knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Richard Cecil
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know - the less you know, the more you think you know.
David T. Freeman
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
African Proverb
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
The only way to change the world is to change yourself.
Nelson Mandela
The most important thing in science is not to know the truth, but to avoid being wrong.
George Box
The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it's open.
Frank Zappa
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know.
Aristotle
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Aristotle
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become.
K. C. Cole
The more complex the network is, the more intricate its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.
Fritjof Capra
The more you understand, the more you realize how little you know.
Unknown
The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn?
George Bernard Shaw
All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.
Arthur C. Aufderheide
The universe is not a collection of objects, but rather a web of relations.
Fritjof Capra
The interconnectedness of all things is a fundamental principle of nature.
John Muir
The more we know, the more we discover how much we do not know.
Aristotle
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
Knowledge is not a series of self-contained boxes, but a web of connections.
David Perkins
The interconnectedness of knowledge is what makes it powerful.
Jay Cross
The interconnectedness of knowledge is what makes it possible to solve complex problems.
Peter Senge
The interconnectedness of knowledge is what makes it possible to see the world in new ways.
Ken Robinson
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus
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