There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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