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Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

H. L. Mencken

Stupid, Knowledge, Science

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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Huxley

Real, Believe, Knowledge

'Collected Essays' vol. 3 (1895) 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Francis Bacon

Hope, Science, Logic

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It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.

Karl Popper

Science, Thinking, People

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In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Bertrand Russell

Truth, Mistake, Party

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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there is something essential lacking. Chess problems are unimportant. The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful-"important" if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and "serious" expresses what I mean much better.

G. H. Hardy

Beautiful, Moving, Mean

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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love

Hans Zinsser

War, Adventure, Science

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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

Germaine Greer

Choices, Parent, Alternatives

"Sex and Destiny". Book by Germaine Greer, 1984.

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...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

Mao Zedong

Country, Communication, Winning

Zedong Mao (1959). “On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949”

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With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

Robert Powell

Holiday, Wife, Networking

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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

John Calvin

Knowledge Of God, Christianity

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There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Dominique Pire

Kindness, Islands, Oasis

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The really tough choices...don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.

Rushworth Kidder

Choices, Sides, Tough

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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.

Arthur David Ritchie

Knowledge, Science, Achievement

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No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Harold Laski

Religious, Government, Atheism

Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.119, Routledge

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With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben

Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1940). “Dangerous Thoughts”

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The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.

John Constable

Summer, Art, June

John Constable, Anne Gray, Dr, John Gage, Conal Shields, Ann Galbally (2006). “Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky”

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Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

Thomas Aquinas

Humility, Humble, Mark

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It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of thought. It only becomes possible at all after the mathematical notation has, as a result of genuine thought, been so developed that it does the thinking for us, so to speak.

Gottlob Frege

Knowledge, Thinking, Names

Gottlob Frege, J. L. Austin (1980). “The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Spiritual, Speak, Guru

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The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you started with. Can any being seriously think that he is going to pass through the infinity of time without ever making another mistake? Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.

Thaddeus Golas

Spiritual, Mistake, Thinking

Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.84, Gibbs Smith

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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual, Generosity, Quality

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Jesus was a cross-dresser.

George Carlin

Jesus, Crosses, Dressers

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

George Carlin

Mean, Deception, Usual

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

George Carlin

Real, School, Simple

George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.176, Hachette UK

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