Useless knowledge
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"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge" -- Bertrand Russell At least I will learn this melody before I die --Emil Cioran |
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Useless knowledge is knowledge without use.
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See also
- Knowledge for knowledge's sake
- Knowledge
- Trivia
- Faux dictionaries and encyclopedias
- 'Pataphysics
- Purpose of art
- Serendipity
- Useless
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Namesakes
- The Library of Useless Knowledge (1837) by Athanasius Gasker
- "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge" (1939) by Abraham Flexner
- The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (1996) is a novel by Yuri Dombrovsky.
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