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“It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.”

Humans Felt Effort Consciousness Limits Finals Obscure Pretension Human Knowledge

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr