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|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br />
|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin Robbins]] in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin Robbins]] in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite>
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the [[future]].'''<br />
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite>
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|51 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
|51 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Red Smith</cite>
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Sir Thomas Browne]]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Sir Thomas Browne<br />
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing