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Bertrand Russell once gave a lecture on the logic of modern physics. Alfred North Whitehead, who was in the audience, rose to express his gratitude for an illuminating lecture but also thanked Russell “for not having up skewered the great darkness of the subject.” Nehemiah Polen

Real wisdom is acknowledging what you do not know.

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