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History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. – Aldous Huxley

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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. – Christopher Andrea

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. – Frank Zappa

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