Science Teaches Humility

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.

Aleksandr Herzen, Dwight Macdonald, My Past and Thoughts: the Memoirs of Alexander Herzen (1982)

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