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  • Socrates said, our only knowledge was
    "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant
    Science enough, which levels to an ass
    Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
    Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas!
    Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
    That he himself felt only "like a youth
    Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

    Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2079, Delphi Classics