Brian Morton Quotes
Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy
Brian Morton
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To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available
S. I. Hayakawa
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Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Walt Whitman
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The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.
C. V. Raman
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Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.
E. O. Wilson
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Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
Ayn Rand
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
Ernest Hemingway
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My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.
Emily Giffin
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Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?
Peter Abelard
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Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy
Brian Morton