#ignorance

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attack #defending #deliberate #devote #enough

Ignorance is kind of bliss. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#ignorance #kind

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#class #conspiracy #degrade #denied #enforced

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. ↗

— Luther H. Hodges

#could #dividends #economics #fortune #ignorance

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. ↗

— David Eagleman

#i think #ignorance #life #our #really

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#better #continue #doing #freeze #frozen

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#ignorance #ordinary #than #times #worse

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#disagreement #dreams #faith #future #hopes

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ↗

— Countess of Blessington

#chains #forged #ignorance #keep #men