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16. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth
century should not be aware that the earth travelled
round the sun appeared to be to me such an
extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
“You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my
expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall
do my best to forget it.”
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17. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth
century should not be aware that the earth travelled
round the sun appeared to be to me such an
extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
“You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my
expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall
do my best to forget it.”
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18. “To forget it!”
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
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19. 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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20. I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little
brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to
use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his
library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Sherlock Holmes
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26. Make use of a digital brain. You can find stuff easier and
you’ll never have that “on the tip of my tongue” feeling
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