Dedektif Sherlock Holmes ve Profesor Challenger'in yaratiicisi Iskoc yazar Arthur Conan Doyle'un olum yil donumu (7 Temmuz 1930)
"Insan zihninin, bos bir cati katina benzedigini ve insanin bu cati katinin kendi sececegi mobilyalarla doseyecegini dusunuyorum. Yalnizca bir aptal, onune gelen her bilgiyi kapar, boylece ona faydasi dokunabilecek bilgiler kalabaliklasir ya da bircok sey birbirine girer ve o bilgiye ihtiyaci oldu mu guclukler yasar. Ama becerikli ve usta bir kimse, zihnine ya da catisina bir seyler alirken son derece dikkatlidir. Isini yapmasina yardim edecek aletlerden baska hicbir seyi yoktur ama bunlari da siniflandirmis ve kusursuz bir duzene sokmustur. O kucuk odanin duvarlarinin esnek oldugunu ve her olcude genisleyebilecegini dusunmek hata olur. Emin olun ki, zaman geliyor, zihninize kattiginiz her bilgiyle onceden bildiginiz bir seyi unutuyorsunuz. Bu yuzden, onemsiz bilgilerin onemlilerin onunu tikamamasi cok buyuk onem tasiyor." Kizil Dosya
"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
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