If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov

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Always assume the best about your audience.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

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Certainty is the currency of fundamentalism; but being unwilling to question what you believe isn't a strength, it's a weakness.
-- Neil Carter (patheos.com)

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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-- Vince Lombardi

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Secrecy is a form of regulation. There are many such forms, but a general division can be made between those dealing with domestic affairs and those dealing with foreign affairs. In the first category, it is generally the case that government prescribes what the citizen may do. In the second category, it is generally the case that government prescribes what the citizen may know.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain

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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
-- E. H. Gombrich

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Science is a fundamentally human endeavor, whose purpose is to help us understand the world, better our lives, feed our innate curiosity. It is meaningless, empty, and toxic if placed above or in opposition to human rights and human lives. Humanity and justice must come first.
-- Katie Mack (@astrokatie)

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As in popular music and television entertainment, it is not that there is no genuinely serious art at all; it is that there is so much that is meaningless, uninspired, untalented, or perverse.
-- Robert H. Bork (Slouching Towards Gomorrah)

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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you "play" with them!
-- Richard Feynman

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