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The Discovery of Ignorance

The Discovery of Ignorance

  • But modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge: The willingness to admit ignorance. 
  • Even more critically, it accepts that the things that we think we know could be proven wrong as we gain more knowledge.
  • The great discovery that launched the Scientific Revolution was the discovery that humans do not know the answers to their most important questions.

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.” — Helen Keller

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