“The old errors are fantastical and fantastic, and revealing of human hopes and anxieties; our terrors, our desires for greater digestive health and sexual prowess, our quest for magical solutions to relentlessly human problems. And every scientist you meet will tell you: there is no reason to believe that we haven't got just as much wrong today as we have done in every generation up till now. It would be worth our holding that knowledge, tight and urgent, as we go; our learning, though vast, is an infinitesimally small fraction of what exists.” KnowledgeMagicErrorsHopesHuman ProblemsWrong IdeasAnxietiesWrong Conclusions Book:Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures