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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance, Forgetfulness, Defects
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.214, Courier Corporation
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.