
“The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.”
1962, Rice University speech
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.”
1962, Rice University speech
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
Chauvinism in Medicine (1902), p. 696
Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government (1909).
Context: No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. … Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious instruments of political artifice. Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses... The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope!
Michael Jordan: ‘I can no longer stay silent’ http://theundefeated.com/features/michael-jordan-i-can-no-longer-stay-silent/, The Undefeated (July 25, 2016)
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
Source: Turning to one another (2002), p. 55
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).
Source: On his preference for short stories over novels in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)