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“Buy this book. And read it. Regularly.” That’s the powerful summary by Philip Moriarty of The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols. Skip to main content. ... A little learning is a dangerous thing. 04 ...
A little learning is a dangerous thing: Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. I TAKE my title from these ...
The title of Alexander Pope’s 1709 poem on youthful exuberance and wisdom, ‘A Little learning is a dangerous thing’ has been immortalised in the proverb that goes by the same words.