On Ignorance (Unsourced)

"A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him." (Thomas Carlyle)

"[...] chance has not reality in itself; it is only a term fi t to designate our ignorance concerning the manner in which the different parts of a phenomenon are arranged among themselves and in relation to the rest of Nature." (Pierre Simon Laplace)

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." (Will Durant)

"Ignorance is the most delightful science in the world because it is acquired without labor or pains and keeps the mind from melancholy." (Giordano Bruno)

"Men are enclosed in their own ignorance as in a prison with slowly receding walls. Unable to see beyond, they marvel at the vastness of their mansion without ever suspecting the existence of an infinite world outside."  (Alfred Franklin)

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B Adams)

"One great source of perplexity to me is an utter ignorance whether I note the right facts, and whether they are of sufficient importance to interest others." (Charles R Darwin)

"Statistics: The mathematical theory of ignorance." (Morris Kline)

"The Art of Chymistry, (Honoured Sir) although in its speculations most Noble and Delectable to a Philosophic Mind, and in its Practice highly Inservient, and Beneficial to Mankind; yet hath it not escaped Obloquies, the false Imputations of Detractors, and Calumniators, who either through Ignorance, Idleness, or Envoy (or all of the cojoined) have made a false Representation of this most Noble Art to the World, and endeavored to set Mankind at the greatest distance from that which is its highest interest to court." (Christopher Packe)

"The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday’s ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition." (Charles Nicolle)

"The truth of science has ever had not merely the task of evolving herself from the dull and uniform mist of ignorance, but also that of the repressing and dissolving the phantoms of the imagination." (Michael Faraday)

"The perpetual enemies of the human race, apart from man’s own nature, are ignorance and disease." (Alan Gregg)

"We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them." (Chauncey Wright)