More wisdom from Richard de Bury …
“The educated man seeks such degree of certainty as he perceives the subject-matter will bear”.A little more about the good Richard can be found at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1997/BooksPNC.html Or if you’d like to read him in Latin, here it is (at least I think that’s what it is …) http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/debury.html