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IF what I have said before is true—that half-knowledge is more or less the characteristic of all naturalists, that in many, perhaps in most, of the lateral branches of their own science, even the naturalists themselves are only half-knowers; if later on I said that the true naturalist was distinguished by his being perfectly aware of the limit between his knowledge and his ignorance, then you understand, gentlemen, that also with regard to the public at large we must confine our claims to demanding that merely what every single investigator in his own direction, in his sphere, can designate as reliable truth which is common to all—that only this shall be admitted into the general plan of education.
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The Liberty of Science in the Modern State 1 . Nature 17, 111–113 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017111a0
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