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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. – John Locke

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – John Locke

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All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. – John Locke

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If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. – John Locke

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Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil. – Trofim Lysenko

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. – H. L. Mencken

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Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. – Azar Nafisi

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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact – hence changing general statements about it – and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. – Talcott Parsons

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