Thomas Jefferson

1743–1826 · Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809

Topics: learning, open source, creativity

• What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

  — Thomas Jefferson

• He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

  — Thomas Jefferson

• While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost.

  — Thomas Jefferson