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“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.”
― The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
― The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”
― The Meaning of Things
― The Meaning of Things
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