“As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
“It is far more arrogant to profess intuitive knowledge of the sacred than scientific knowledge of the tangible.”
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 44)
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