As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth..

This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse….

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignora….

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility a….

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely ext….

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech..

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge..

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy..

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance..

Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnostic….

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it ar….

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance..

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business..

It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the ….

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge..

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are in….

There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minoriti….

Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Oth….

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew..

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance..