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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. – B. H. Liddell Hart

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. – Carl Sagan

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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. – Daniel Bell

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didnt have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. – Herbert Simon

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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrews cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neos choice to know the truth. Its a beautiful, beautiful story. – Keanu Reeves

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