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The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this! ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. ↗

— Charles Lederer

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ↗

— John Locke

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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

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