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Ignorance is bold, and takes high but useless flights; true knowledge is modest, and limits her flight to what she knows she can accomplish safely.

David T. Ansted

There is much to be learned even from the very simplest things in nature, and when we begin to inquire about such of them as are seen and made use of every day, it is astonishing how little is really known, even by well-informed persons, and how large is the field of observation.

David T. Ansted

Every year something is discovered that was not before known; but there remains so vast an amount of material yet unknown and unrecorded, that we may be quite sure it will never be exhausted, however long the human race may remain on the earth, or however highly the faculties of man may be developed.

David T. Ansted

Ignorance, having few facts, loses sight of all in her endeavors to generalize; knowledge, with many facts, finds it difficult so to arrange them as to obtain the conclusions they properly warrant.

David T. Ansted

David T. Ansted

David T. Ansted

Born: February 5, 1814

Died: May 13, 1880 (aged 66)

Bio: David Thomas Ansted was an English geologist and author.

Known for:

The Great Stone Book of Nature (1863)
The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863 (1863)

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