Ignorance Quotes

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

James Clerk Maxwell

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

Johannes Kepler

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

Romain Rolland

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.

Ravindra Shukla

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

Stifyn Emrys

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.

C. JoyBell C.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Bryant McGill

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Colin Thompson

When I was foolish, I detested sagacity. I ate the fruits of my foolishness and ignorance. I thank God because I was once foolish. It was from my foolishness that I learnt and understood the true savour of sagacity.

Ogwo David Emenike

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the chance-of-the-gaps fallacy. Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

William A. Dembski

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

John Lennon

Ignorance is the peace of life.

Proverb

I didn't know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

Faraaz Kazi

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Richard Feynman

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Richard Dawkins

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Frederick Donald Coggan

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Thomas Mann

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

Sorin Cerin