"Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration."

-- George Henry Lewes

#Ignorance Quotes #Loss Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.”

Source : David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press
“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”

Source : "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.
“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”
“Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.190, Penguin
“Sarcasm is lost in print.”
“I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.”
“I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.”
“I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.”

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