Theodosius Dobzhansky Quotes

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

How little we know of what there is to know.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I'm not very wise to many things.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.