“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol
Source: The Lost Symbol
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Vol. 1, letter 11.
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Source: A Wrinkle in Time
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William James Mayo (1861–1939) American surgeon
Speech before a gathering of physicians (circa 1922) http://books.google.com/books?id=qYIHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+specialist+is+a+man+who+knows+more+and+more+about+less+and+less%22&pg=PA35#v=onepage
“Socialism is founded on a lie -- the premise that man knows more than he in fact does know.”
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic
Leonard Read Journals, September 18, 1959 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1959/leonard-e-read-journal-september-1959
“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Context: Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.