It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
—John Tyndall
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Die Diktatur bringt den Maulkorb und dieser die Stumpfheit. Wissenschaft kann nur gedeihen in einer Atmosphäre des freien Wortes. A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.
—Albert Einstein
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Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit. Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe!
—Geoffrey Chaucer
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Veritas autem docendo persuadet non suadendo docet. Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
—Tertullian
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
—Philip José Farmer
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C’est une maladie naturelle à l’homme de croire qu’il possède la vérité directement … It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly …
—Blaise Pascal
