Nicholas of Cusa#Nicholas
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Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464
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“On a ship home from Constantinople, a boatman's son from the Moselle received the idea that the deepest knowing is knowing that you cannot know — and used geometry to prove it.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The infinite God is strictly beyond the reach of finite minds, so the highest knowledge is learned ignorance — a precise, even mathematical, understanding of exactly how and why we cannot know; and at infinity, all opposites coincide.”
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