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how little
Sep. 12th, 2004 09:46 am"There is truth in all churches, and error too. If any church assumes infallibility, that it is right and all others are wrong, that church is guilty of colossal egotism. There is no infallible church. If a man assumes he knows all there is worth knowing, and shuts himself against all the open avenues of truth and knowledge, he is guilty of monumental conceit! How superficial such a man! Great thinkers, the ripest scholars, are humble men because they know so little. They are men who know enough to know how little they know"--Quillen Hamilton Shinn
At the turn of the 20th Century, a serious debate about cutting back on the patent office ensued, on the assumption that most new things had already been discovered. Physicists felt they were almost done with solving the problems of physical reality.
( on learning a little )
At the turn of the 20th Century, a serious debate about cutting back on the patent office ensued, on the assumption that most new things had already been discovered. Physicists felt they were almost done with solving the problems of physical reality.
( on learning a little )
