A small slate slab with a fan-shaped chalk smudge and a violet feather resting on it.

Original artwork, not a still

Sir Thomas Browne

We do but learn what our better advanced judgement will unlearn tomorrow.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Whatever we think we know now, a wiser future version of us will probably overturn some of it. Learning, on this view, is partly a string of temporary conclusions. It's a humbling reminder to hold today's certainties a little loosely.

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