As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view. Matt Ridley
When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her. Ernest Hemingway
Little chips kindle fire, and big logs sustain it. Portuguese Proverb
Crooked logs make straight fires. English Proverb
Crooked logs make straight fires. French Proverb