"What Can We Know?"

“What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly

 half-brained things peering out at the infinite, 

with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.”

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the 

essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos,

and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos…

A third element of man's nature is this:

that he shall not understand what he is doing."

- John Brunner