The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally co…

Lewis Thomas
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The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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