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     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Orwell (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Orwell (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), French [[physicist]] and [[Math|mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), French [[physicist]] and [[Math|mathematician]], elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite>
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite>
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|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br />
|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
|35 = '''All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite>
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>

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Study the past if you would divine the future.
Confucius

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