Tuesday, August 28, 2012

It is impossible for a single human mind to comprehend all available scientific truth about man's life.  Nor can a single human mind be fully informed on even one scientific approach to the study of man.  our necessarily limited view is not too tragic if we learn to admit it, and if we are humble enough to listen to the views of other specialists.  The tragedy begins when a person with a single view tries to explain the whole of reality from such a narrow base.  It is unfortunate too when one thinks his limited view is the whole view; or when he thinks that because he is authoritative in one field, he is in all fields.  A person, in his blindness, sometimes quite innocently identifies his own view with the whole truth.

-Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (pg. 41)

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