Ignorance Quote by Theodosius Dobzhansky

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

— John Archibald Wheeler

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As the island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of…

— John Archibald Wheeler

If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short,…

— Leonard Sweet

“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

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds

— Anonymous

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what…

— Karl Popper

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

— John F. Kennedy

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

— Will Durant

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer…

— Ralph Washington Sockman