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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Moving
Ignorance
Mean
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
― Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Ignorance
Movement
Resistance
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
― Voltaire
Voltaire
Ignorance
Stupidity
Appearance
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
― W. Clement Stone
W. Clement Stone
Truth
Ignorance
Stupidity
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
― W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance
America
UnitedStates
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
― W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Lying
Ignorance
Men
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
― W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance
Cures
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
― W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Honesty
Ignorance
Knowledge
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole
― Karl Marx
Ignorance
Opposites
Agony
Karl Marx
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
― Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Ambition
Ignorance
Lines
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Ignorance
College
People
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Motivation
Ignorance
Knowledge
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
― Al-Ghazali
Ignorance
People
Looks
Al-Ghazali
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
― Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick
Ignorance
Perfect
Pleasure
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
― Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Country
Ignorance
Tyrants
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
― Booker T. Washington
Ignorance
Men
Ignorant
Booker T. Washington
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
― Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Real
Ignorance
Causes
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