The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance…

Alan Watts
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The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. ✨ Alan W Watts (2012). Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, p.98, Random House
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