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Knowing
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
-- Bertrand Russell
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
-- Pierre Gallois
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
-- John le Carre
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-- Niels Bohr
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
-- Alexandre Dumas
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
-- Edward R. Murrow
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
-- George Orwell
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
-- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
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