A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing
A new quote by Sir Ian Malcolm
Transcription
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.” Of course it is if, with that little learning, you try to dogmatize on everything and want to burn at the stake everybody who will not accept your conjectures as certainties…But a little learning is a great deal better than no knowledge at all; and it is all that we can hope to attain in this short life of ours. So let us be eager for that little… — Sir Ian Malcolm1
Malcolm, Sir Ian, The Pursuits of Leisure, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York, 1968. First published in 1929. p. 16-17.