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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite> | ||
|19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br /> | |19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite> | ||
|20 = '''Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.'''<br /> | |20 = '''Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Cotton Dana]] (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite> | ||
|21 = '''Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | |21 = '''Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.louislamour.com Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), U.S. author]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.louislamour.com Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), U.S. author]</cite> | ||
|22 = '''Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.'''<br /> | |22 = '''Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564-1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite> | ||
|23 = '''Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.'''<br /> | |23 = '''Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.'''<br /> | ||
<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;">— George Orwell (1903-1950)</cite> | <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;">— Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist</cite> | <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> | ||
|28 = '''Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br /> | |28 = '''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> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite> | ||
|29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | |29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918-1988), American physicist</cite> | ||
|30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.'''<br /> | |30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]] | ||
|31 = '''The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.'''<br /> | |31 = '''The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report of the European Commission]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report of the European Commission]<br /> | ||
Revision as of 15:55, 6 April 2010
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)
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