Admitting that we do not know, and maintaining perpetually the attitude that we do not know the direction necessarily to go, permit the possibility of alteration, of thinking, of new contributions and new discoveries for the problem of developing a way to do what we want ultimately, even when we do not know what we want.
Richard Feynman: The Meaning of it All
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