It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledg… - Tom Stoppard

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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

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Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.

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Alternative Names: Sir Tom Stoppard • Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE • Tomáš Sträussler

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