“My knowledge of the implausible and ever-expanding extent of my own ignorance gives me pause. In that silence I find cause to suspect that my currently held opinions are, at best, waypoints, and, at worst, traps that advertise their mastery in place of demonstrating it. In this, I have not intelligence, but the hope of it, and it is in that hope that I dwell, actively pursuing its embodiment.”

— an anonymous informant