"[T]he great lesson of humility which science teaches us, that we can never be omnipotent or omniscient, is the same as that of all great religions: man is not and never will be the god before whom he must bow down." (1)
(1) Cohen, Morris. Reason and Nature. 1931-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt-. Page 449. Significantly enough, this exact quote is used by Hayek to close the part one of his The Counter-Revolution of Science.
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