… is from page 449 of the 1959 Dover Publications edition of Morris Cohen’s 1931 treatise, Reason and Nature: An Essay on the Meaning of Scientific Method:
So the great lesson of humility which science teaches us, that we can never be omnipotent and omniscient, is the same as the lesson of all great religions: man is not and never will be the god before whom we must bow down.


So the great lesson of humility which science teaches us, that we can never be omnipotent and omniscient, is the same as the lesson of all great religions: man is not and never will be the god before whom we must bow down.
