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It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it. ↗

— Alain Rene Le Sage

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

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I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me. ↗

— Fred Savage

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