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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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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.
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
I think it`s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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