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Each new domain of knowledge appears simple from the distance of ignorance. The more we learn about a particular domain, the greater the number of uncertainties, doubts, questions and complexities. Each bit of knowledge serves as the thesis from which additional questions or antithesis arise. (Meacham, J.A., “Wisdom and the Context of Knowledge: Knowing that One Doesn’t Know,” Contributions to Human Development, Vol. 8, Kuhn, D. and J.A. Meacham (eds.), New York: S. Karger, 1983, p. 120.)

"It is not enough that you should understand about applied science. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing and not a curse." (Albert Einstein)

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