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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Mahatma Gandhi</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Mahatma Gandhi</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br /> | |24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Orwell (1903-1950)</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory</cite> | ||
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | |26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist</cite> | ||
(taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here]) | (taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here]) | ||
|27 = '''Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'''<br /> | |27 = '''Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite> | ||
|27 = '''Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Bernard Shaw </cite> | |||
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Revision as of 12:24, 30 September 2009
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
— Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
—add a quote