Science is the topography of ignorance.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Science is the topography of ignorance
I often discuss the knowledge frontier, that boundary which is much closer than we realize, between what we can know with confidence and what we can only predict with some probability. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., had his own phrase. From Medical Essays, 211. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 691-92
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