“If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.”
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
