All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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