Ernest Renan Quote

A little true science is better than a great deal of bad science. One is less liable to error by confessing one's ignorance than by fancying that one knows a great many things one does not.


The Future of Science, Preface (p. xix), Roberts Brothers. 1893


A little true science is better than a great deal of bad science. One is less liable to error by confessing one's ignorance than by fancying that one ...

A little true science is better than a great deal of bad science. One is less liable to error by confessing one's ignorance than by fancying that one ...

A little true science is better than a great deal of bad science. One is less liable to error by confessing one's ignorance than by fancying that one ...

A little true science is better than a great deal of bad science. One is less liable to error by confessing one's ignorance than by fancying that one ...