I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

I count religion but a childish toy and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Where ignorance is our master there is no possibility of real peace.

All the perplexities confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation not from want of honor or virtue so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin credit and circulation.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it it shines clear.

To avoid ignorance and bullying I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning not the result of ignorance or accident its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Injustice poverty slavery ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals individual and collective a vast variety of them seldom predictable at times incompatible.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Anyway no drug not even alcohol causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles we shouldn't test people for drugs we should test them for stupidity ignorance greed and love of power.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.