Quote#Wisdom
What if that knowledge — and only that — should become the possession…
Quote byPeter Kropotkin · 1842–1921
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899), Part IV, Sect. 3.
English (original)
What if that knowledge — and only that — should become the possession of all? Would not science itself progress in leaps, and cause mankind to make strides in production, invention, and social creation, of which we are hardly in a condition now to measure the speed?
— Peter Kropotkin
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