The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
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Cleopatra's Nose (1995). This "aphorism" was expressed in different forms by Josh Billings and Socrates.Daniel J. Boorstin
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The books to be read should not be limited to those written in English.... Instead it should be devoted to the great works of history, biography, philosophy, theology, natural science, social science, and mathematics, as well as the... tradition of Western literature -- in English translation... Its aim should not be a survey of Western civilization, but an effort to understand the basic ideas and issues in Western thought.
Mortimer Adler
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities — perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.
Karl Popper
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance — the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
It is not ignorance that is the problem, but the illusion of knowledge.
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