"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Funny Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Learning Quotes

“War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.”
“There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.”
“I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.”
“I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.”
“It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.”
“Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.”

Source : Mike Brown (2010). “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”, p.72, Spiegel & Grau
“I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.”
“Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God.”

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