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Quest For Knowledge

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Questioning is the piety of thought.

Martin Heidegger

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Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

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The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

Matthew Arnold

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I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

William Harvey

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