I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. ✨…

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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. ✨ Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, p.87, Pan Macmillan
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