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Quotes from The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself — Daniel J. Boorstin

1914–2004 United States

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The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (1983)

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