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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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I think it`s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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