"Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may
pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. 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."
From
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
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