David T. Ansted - The Great Stone Book of Nature (1863)

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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

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