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Quote by Will Durant
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignor

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. – Will Durant

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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. – Will Durant

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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. – Will Durant

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. – Nate Silver

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no ones brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. – Roger Bacon

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think thats where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. – Alastair Campbell

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