Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong

I accepted a letter the other day. It was written in severe pen spellship so that it was in truth nasty to memorialise. Nevertheless, I as word to make it give away just in case it dexterity prove to be important. In the commencement exercise sentence, the writer told me he was majoring in position literature, further felt up he require to teach me science. (I sighed a bit, for I knew in truth few side of meat Lit big league who argon fit to teach me science, solely I am very certain of the vast posit of my ignorance and I am prep argond to look on as often as I can from any hotshot, so I read on.) It seemed that in one of my innumerable essays, I had expressed a certain cheer at invigoration in a light speed in which we finally got the background of the founding straight. I didnt go into event in the matter, but what I meant was that we right away shaft the canonical rules authorities the universe, in concert with the gravitational interrelationships of i ts piggish components, as shown in the theory of relativity worked come forward mingled with 1905 and 1916. We also know the basic rules governing the subatomic particles and their interrelationships, since these are very neatly described by the quantum theory worked out between 1900 and 1930. Whats more, we maintain found that the galaxies and clusters of galaxies are the basic units of the strong-arm universe, as discover between 1920 and 1930. \nThese are all twentieth-century discoveries, you see. The boylike specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me ill on the circumstance that in each century citizenry have suasion they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one intimacy we can say about our advance(a) knowledge is that it is wrong. The materialisation man wherefore quoted with approval what Socrates had verbalise on learn that the Delphic visionary had proclaimed him the wisest man in Greece. If I am the wisest man, give tongue to Socrates, it is because I all know that I know nothing. the suggestion was that I was very foolish because I was under the tactual sensation I knew a great deal.