Consider the extent and limits of all human knowledge. Sum it up. Now, do you think we know it all or is there still much to be discovered?

looooong way to go.

We’ve barely scratched the surface.

We know virtually nothing about the deep oceans and deep space. Plenty to learn.

We don’t know how much we don’t know! Arrogant to think we know much.

who knows…the things that we do know and have discovered and our reasonings for them could be completely off. If you ask me, we hardly no anything even though we have a grasp about everything. We will never figure out everything

We haven’t even scratched the surface on anything. We don’t even fully understand ourselves or our environment around us. I think that we are gaining knowledge far faster then we have been but we have a long way to go. And I think there are limits to what we can understand because our own limitations and understand,

we probably know more than we need to know about a lot of things; and we’re likely wrong about many of the things we’ve convinced ourselves we do know. but there’s no doubt in my mind that in the grand scheme of things, we don’t know shit.

We are like infants who have just figured out how to suck their thumbs.

LMAO! Nice similie! : D

Are you kidding? How could anyone who has graduated from kindergarten even consider this to be a useful or debatable question? Yikes!

Ad hominem, and Appeal to Ridicule are fallacies, @wundayatta. :)

Touche, @Spinel

By the time I had graduated from kindergarten, it was very clear to me and anyone else I spoke to that there was a hell of a lot that I didn’t [know]. Indeed, by asking parents numerous questions and being told “I don’t know,” it was clear that there was an awful lot that adults didn’t know.

As we grew older and older, we came to learn that more and more was unknown, even as we learned more an more. It seemed that learning more meant the amount we didn’t know grew larger. Further discussions with other people, and reading of many sources of information that were available publicly only confirmed this hypothesis about knowledge.

Although, it gradually became apparent to me, that there was a subset of people who thought they knew all there was to know. Many of those used a single book, in which they claimed all knowledge was held—or at least, all knowledge worth knowing. Still others who behaved in singularly unproductive ways claimed there was nothing left to learn. They tended to run around beating up people who weren’t from their tribe, and/or trying to make everything behave and think as they did.

Additionally, there were a bunch of people who seemed to score very low on intelligence tests. These people also claimed they didn’t need to know any more, and beside, how much more was there to learn. Didn’t scientists know everything? We know how to build atom bombs and send men to the moon and how to overheat a planet. What else was there?

If you were to ask these people how much education they had, you would be shocked at how many of them said they didn’t need no education. In fact, if you looked at their school records you’d find many hadn’t completed eighth grade. Were you to extend your search to the entire world, you would actually find a majority had indeed not finished kindergarten.

This is all common knowledge, available to anyone who chooses to look. But who cares?

Personally, I think this is a question made for ridicule because, to me, the answer is obvious. I also think the answer is obvious to anyone else, as seems to be born out by most of the answers. So I question the integrity of anyone who would seriously ask this question. Not knowing you, @Spinel, but seeing that you are familiar with the tropes of rhetoric, I have to conclude that I’ve been duped.

So, dude, let me say this: aren’t you special! Oh darn! There I go again. [insert smiley face] Well played.

@wundayatta In your case, I mentioned the fallacies because I know you can do better than that…and based your latest comments, my efforts proved worthwhile.

If I wanted to ridicule and taunt, would I not be posting more personal attacks on this question and others? Would I not sticking my tongue out at you with a clear “na na na?” If I wanted to flaunt, would I not post an “enemies list” in my profile? Would I not mention my five masters degrees often? That part’s fictional. I must say, give me more credit. :) If I wish to truly ridicule, why would I be so mild and shy? I’m not the mild type.

I’ll admit: I have double motives for asking something of an obvious nature. The crowd on here is rather unusual, you never know how they will respond. And then, some people don’t just accept the obvious answer to a common obvious question, but rather think on it. These people are the kind that usually come up with something fascinating and different. A something I like read and hear about.
And for future reference, I happen to fall onto the female side of humanity.

I dunno. Personally, I think the subtlest forms of ridicule are the best, Particularly when the person actually believes you are complimenting them. But everyone’s mileage is different. Sort of like setting a lure and see who bites and how they bite. Of course! S fishing expedition into unknown waters—strange looking ones at that. I am forewarned.

Another curious thing to me is that I hate cats and yet they often come around me when they won’t go to others who are trying to attract them—even the shyest ones. True story.

Sounds a bit sadistic to me…

But then who I am to talk? “Meow!” By the way.

Not sadistic. Just passive-aggressive.

I hope you don’t have fleas! Just sayin.’

Oh God. I shouldn’t tell you this, but it was the creepiest thing. I’m at a staid Christmas party (bunch of intellectuals standing around eating cake and drinking hot cider) and I’m sitting on this high-backed armchair. There’s a cat that has been hiding upstairs, but finally decides to come out and see what’s going on. He (or she) walks around the perimeter of the room towards me. I’m thinking, ‘Uh oh.’ The cat then jumps up on the back of the chair I’m sitting in. ‘Oh God, please move on.’ Hah! Cat not only stops just behind me. Cat proceeds to lie down, kind of leaning on the back of my neck! There’s something that is just wrong with this picture. Well, at least I survived.

@wundayatta Sounds like a 9 on the 1 to 10 scale. Glad ya made it…what would Fluther be without it’s humorous asset? ;)

There’s always my idol—AstroChuck.

But a child’s nature can only be the object of amusement for so long…variety is wondrously refreshing.

All right. All right. I give up. Here. Cuff me and haul me away to the Pokey. Oh God. Pokey? I’m going to the Pokey? What Pokey? Pokemon? Pokeyng along? Okey Pokey? Guilty as charged, yer honor (pronounced with a spoken h—like Liza Doolittle?). Damn, I never know what to do when you’ve got a parenthetical question followed by the end of the sentence. Question mark, period? But that’s not the only digression the Liza Doolittle reference sparked. Not that I am like him at all, but I always think of James Joyce when bringing up things I’m not sure people a generation or so past me have any knowledge of. Now. Where was I? Oh yes. The Pokey. Just say that ten times over and over. Now stop laughing! Stop I tell you. Stop!

we know..NOTHING…for everything we discover , 100 questions pop up.

there are still things we dont know about our own bodies like why the fuck we yawn and many things about our actual brain. we’ve advanced alot but compared to everything there is to know, its almost like a baby that only just learned its first word.