“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
