“The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance. For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance — the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”

— Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (via whyallcaps)

“It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one’s partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion will be the more fruitful the more the partner’s backgrounds differ.”

— Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (via whyallcaps)

— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (via whyallcaps)