Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness. (Julien Offray de La Mettrie)

Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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