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. Tom Stoppard
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The quote above by C.S. Lewis is about useful knowledge. The knowledge gained from useless knowledge is not useful to us, but it's interesting to know. He said, “Practical knowledge is not essentially different from useless knowledge. Ignorance of how to do something is just as much a handicap as ignorance of the meaning of words.”

Source: The Invention Of Love

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