

“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations

“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
― The Telling
― The Telling

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia’, is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.”
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“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
― Revelations
― Revelations
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
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