“Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.”

“Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.”

“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”

“When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions.”

“I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.”

“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”

“...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived. >”