Atheism Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The extent of our knowledge is just a foot set on the shore not yet sailed accross the great sea of undiscovered truths.

— Pascals Einstein

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about…

— Marcelo Gleiser

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean…

— Isaac Newton

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel Boorstin

“What we have now is but a bare remnant, an age of vast information, but spread thin like a superficial crust passing as knowledge.…

— David Grant Urban

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin