#knowledge

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#knowledge #potential #rights-of-man #nature

The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry. ↗

— Frank Huguenard

#knowledge #science #nature

But it was Aldo’s pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone. Aldo used it to “scatter seeds of knowledge, encouragement, and enthusiasm.” Most of the Pine Cone’s articles, poems, jokes, editorials, and drawings were Aldo’s own. His readers soon realized that the forest animals were as important to him as the trees. His goal was to bring back the “flavor of the wilds. ↗

— Marybeth Lorbiecki

#wilderness #writing #nature

[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world. ↗

— Massimo Pigliucci

#science #nature

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#god #knowledge #philosophy #religion #religion

Hell is truth known too late. ↗

— J.C. Ryle

#knowledge #truth #religion

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#knowledge #muslims #questioning-religion #religion #religion

Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...]. ↗

— Juli Zeh

#religion #responsibility #religion

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#belief #god #interview #knowledge #religion

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ↗

— Socrates

#ignorance