Tom Semple

“But so soon as I had achieved the entire course of study at the close of which one is usually received into the ranks of the learned, I entirely changed my opinion. For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance. —Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences, 1637”
― Stuart Firestein, Ignorance: How It Drives Science

“As one historian has neatly put it: The futures market is a place where “men who don’t own something are selling that something to men who don’t really want it.”
― Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

“I can hear the Colonel—no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth—but it does not make me feel any better.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son