Quotes on Knowing Everything

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.