Break Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“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 challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. Sometimes…

— Scott Adams

“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

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery that launched…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.…

— José Saramago

“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical…

— John Michael Greer

Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

— Charles Baudelaire

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

— Thomas Paine

“He walked on down the dark, empty street. Suddenly an idea came to him. Immediately, with his whole being, he knew it was true.…

— Vasily Grossman