The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)

I do not say we know how far this could go; it is my whole point that we do not know, that we are in contact with numbers of new things of which we know uncommonly little. But the vital point is, not that science deals with what we do not know, but that science is destroying what we thought we did know. Nearly all the latest discoveries have been d

that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.

The globe-trotter lives in a smaller world than the peasant.

He has no longer the wisdom of the uneducated man, who says what he thinks. He has begun to have too much of the knowledge of the half-educated man, who says what he thinks he ought to think.