Ian Leslie Quotes

#1. Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

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#2. It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

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#3. Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.

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#4. ... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.

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#5. how does it feel,' wonders the neuroscientist Christof Koch, 'to bhe the mute hemisphere, permanently encased in one skull in the company of a dominant sibling that does all the talking?

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#6. Whoever you are and whatever start you get in life, knowing stuff makes the world more abundant with possibilities and gleams of light more likely to illuminate the darkness. It opens the universe a little.

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#7. We know that new ideas often come from the cross-fertilisation of different fields, occurring in the mind of a widely knowledgeable person.

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#8. Society is held together by communication and information. Samuel Johnson

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