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I Have Observed That The World Has Suffered Far Less From Ignorance Than From Pretensions To Knowledge. It Is Not Skeptics Or Explorers But Fanatics And Ideologues Who Menace Decency And Progress. No Agnostic Ever Burned Anyone At The Stake Or Tortured A Pagan, A Heretic, Or An Unbeliever.

If Our Knowledge Is, As I Believe, Only An Island In An Infinite Sea Of Ignorance, How Can We In Our Short Lifetime Find Satisfaction In Exploring Our Little Island? How Can We Persuade Ourselves To Be Exhilarated By Our Meager Knowledge And Yet Not Be Discouraged By The Ocean Vistas?

Reading Is Like The Sex Act - Done Privately, And Often In Bed.

The Computer Can Help Us Find What We Know Is There. But The Book Remains Our Symbol And Our Resource For The Unimagined Question And The Unwelcome Answer.

Throught Human History, Illusions Of Knowledge, Not Ignorance, Have Proven To Be The Principal Obstacles To Discovery