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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it. ↗

— Todd Barry

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