The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn. What we have fallen upon is something truly mysterious – not a word we scholars like to use, but a fitting one. I don’t believe anyone understands what is happening or what is to come. If I had given a closed answer to each of your questions, I would not be worth listening to.”
