Ignorance generates confidence

Says Charles Darwin.

“It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.“

Charles Darwin,

introduction to The Descent of Man, 1871.

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The relationship between ignorance and confidence is fascinating. It’s a topic I’ll return to later.