i12bent: Danish polymath: designer, mathematician, inventor, poet, philosopher - Piet Hein, born Dec. 16, 1905 (d. 1996) is now chiefly remembered for his design of every-day objects for use in the kitchen and for decorative purposes - and for his aphoristic poems (‘Grooks’): OMNISCIENCE Knowing what thou knowest not is in a sense omniscience. View high resolution

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Danish polymath: designer, mathematician, inventor, poet, philosopher - Piet Hein, born Dec. 16, 1905 (d. 1996) is now chiefly remembered for his design of every-day objects for use in the kitchen and for decorative purposes - and for his aphoristic poems (‘Grooks’):

OMNISCIENCE

Knowing what
thou knowest not
is in a sense
omniscience.

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