The More Ignorant We Become The Less Value We Set

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”

“Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.”

“Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”

“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”