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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own i

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. – John Locke

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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. – John Locke

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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge. – Walter Gilbert

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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. – Jeremy Taylor

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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi

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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. – John McCarthy

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