One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. – Sophocles

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Source: This quote is from “The Descent of Man” (1871) by Charles Robert Darwin; Volume: 1, page: 3. Complete Sentence: It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, Read More…