...not know it. Perhaps you may discover it, and then you will be so good as to communicate it to me.* I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is,...honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know every thing, and so undertake to explain every thing, often remain * Mr. Franklin has since thought,...

...hier im Sinne Franklin's gehandelt zu haben, der in seinen Briefen sagt: I find, a frank aknowledgment of one's ignorance is not only the easiest way to...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain Information; I think it a honest policy. Diese „ehrliche Politik" meinerseits hat den Versuch einer Erklärung...

...hier im Sinne Franklin's gehandelt zu haben, der in seinen Briefen sagt: I find, a frank aknowledgment of one's ignorance is not only the easiest way to...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain Information; I think it a honest policy. Diese „ehrliche Politik" meinerseits hat den Versach einei Erklärung...

...not know it. Perhaps you may discover it, and then you will be so good as to communicate it to me.* I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is not only the easiest way to got rid of a difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practise it;...

...not know it. Perhaps you may discover it, and then you will be so good as to communicate it to me.* I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is...Those who affect to be thought to know everything, and so undertake to explain everything, often remain long ignorant of many things that others could...

...quotes a passage from Franklin's letters, which should be taken to heart by every scientific man : "I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information ; I think it an honest policy." In the second memoir Hankel treats of the following points: 1. The...

...quotes a passage from Franklin's letters, which should be taken to heart by every scientific man : "I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information ; I think it an honest policy." In the second memoir Hankel treats of the following points : 1. The...

...have increased so rapidly, and are so numerous and multifarious, that I have found it impossible iu the time allotted me this evening to do more than...it. I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to bo thought to know everything often remain long ignorant of many things that others could and would...

...himself. He was always ready to acknowledge a mistake or ignorance of a matter, in one letter saying, " I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is...likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practice it. I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know everything, often...

...way to get rid of a difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practice it. I think it an honest policy. Those who affect...everything, often remain long ignorant of many things in which others could and would instruct them, if they appeared less conceited." Franklin's first original...