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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. ↗

— Max Planck

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. ↗

— Plato

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ↗

— Plato

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. ↗

— Plato

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. ↗

— Plato

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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Plato

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Knowledge is true opinion. ↗

— Plato

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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