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- I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but…
- The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is…
- Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;…
- Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of…
- When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and…
- I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that…
- We never know what we are talking about.
- We do not know. We can only guess.
- But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash,…
- We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in…
- While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
- The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we…
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