Carl Sagan Quotes
But The History Of Science - By Far The Most Successful Claim To Knowledge Accessible To Humans - Teaches That The Most We Can Hope For Is Successive Improvement In Our Understanding, Learning From Our Mistakes, An Asymptotic Approach To The Universe, But With The Proviso That Absolute Certainty Will Always Elude Us. We Will Always Be Mired In Error. The Most Each Generation Can Hope For Is To Reduce The Error Bars A Little, And To Add To The Body Of Data To Which Error Bars Apply. The Error Bar Is A Pervasive, Visible Self-assessment Of The Reliability Of Our Knowledge.
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