"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways."

Knowledge, Help, Mankind, Privilege

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"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways."

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life."

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"I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me."

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"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways."

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"My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur."

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"I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy."

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"I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science."

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"I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child."

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"I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded."

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"I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity."

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"A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation."

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