Quote by Abigail Adams
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams

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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, thats obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation. – Luc Montagnier

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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. – James Beattie

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. – Asa Gray

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When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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