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It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and t

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. – Paul Nurse

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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. – Paul Nurse

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Science
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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. – Paul Nurse

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Science
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I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. – Paul Nurse

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Science
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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt

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Knowledge

Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So theres a little inequity there about knowledge. – Mike DeWine

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Knowledge

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. – George Boole

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Knowledge

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant

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Knowledge

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There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do. – Bubba Watson

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Learning

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Integrity

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. – Billy Sunday

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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Reform, Correction