Jacob Bronowski's "Ascent of Man" video series is decades old, but still wonderful. The quotes below are from the episode "Knowledge and Certainty."
“One aim of
the physical sciences has been to give an exact picture of the material world.
One achievement of physics in the 20th century has been to prove
that that aim is unattainable."
"There is no absolute knowledge. And those who
claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility. That is the
human condition; and that is what quantum physics says. I mean that literally.”
"Whatever
units the world is put together from, they are more delicate, more fugitive,
more startling than we can catch in the butterfly net of our senses."
"All
knowledge, all information between human beings can only be exchanged within a
play of tolerance.”
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