The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.


Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (ed. 1882)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.