Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Pascal , Blaise (2011-04-16), Pensées, Benediction Classics, Retrieved on 2011-05-29
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29 MAY 2011

 Knowledge Shows us What We Don't Know

Scientific learning is composed of two opposites which nonetheless meet each other. The first is the natural ignorance that is man's lot at birth. The second is represented by those great minds that have investigated all knowledge accumulated by man only to discover at the end that in fact they know nothing. Thus they return to the same fundamental ignorance they had thought to leave. Yet this ignorance they have now discovered is an intellectual achievement. It is those who have departed fro...
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The purpose of accumulating knowledge is to become aware of our ignorance.

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