Sir William Osler

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“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
—Sir William Osler (1849–1919)