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			 We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.  
	 We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. 
		
 
	
			 ...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.  
	 ...the more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. 
		
 
	
			 Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and read more 
	 Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities. 
		
 
	
			 Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes read more 
	 Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. 
		
 
	
			 Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But read more 
	 Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another. 
		
 
	
			 The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.  
	 The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. 
		
 
	
			 If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin read more 
	 If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. 
		
 
	
			 The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays read more 
	 The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. 
		
 
	
			 A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor read more 
	 A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.