Carl Sagan quote about knowledge from The Demon-Haunted World - the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.
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the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.
 Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (1995). copy citation

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Author Carl Sagan
Source The Demon-Haunted World
Topic knowledge certainty science
Date 1995
Language English
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