the best minds have recognized that
the range of acknowledged ignorance
will grow with the advance of science.
Unfortunately, the popular effect of
this scientific advance has been a belief,
seemingly shared by many scientists,
that the range of our ignorance is
steadily diminishing and that
we can therefore aim at
more comprehensive and deliberate
control of all human activities.
It is for this reason
that those intoxicated by
the advance of knowledge
so often become
the enemies of freedom.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992),
Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974.
