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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ignorance, Thinking, Progress

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Science, Secret, Progress
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 8, 1799.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Science, Progress, Desire
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 72, 1799.

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