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It Is Disconcerting To Reflect On The Number Of Students We Have Flunked In Chemistry For Not Knowing What We Later Found To Be Untrue.
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It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in
chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.
-- quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)
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Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. -- Ambrose Bierce
Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.
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You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
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It could be a rabid tiger, it could be a Q-tip. We have no way of knowing.