We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. (Bertrand Russell)

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Bertrand Russell

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