#nora

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#almost #become #boast #boasts #claim

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

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#believes #either #i #ignorant #insane

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#down #inspiring #jones #like #me

Ignorance is kind of bliss. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#ignorance #kind

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#disrespect #exciting #exciting time #experienced #hundred

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#best #died #ever #i #i think

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#catholics #christ #frequent #ignorance #marx

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#different #dwellers #each #feelings #habits

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