43, Reflections 138 - 140 138. Making mistakes How old humankind will grow, and even in the state of maturity, the making of mistakes never will be impossible.
Mistakes are results of wrong decisions that people make, due to a temporary lack of information.
The available knowledge of the world is inevitably accompanied with an even wider ignorance. Every discovered fact is related to many unknown others, every answered question raises a universe of new questions. Thanks to this fundamental situation people can't avoid that some of their decisions are more or less severe shots in the dark, so that a mistake is easily possible. Concerning this there are two possibilities. Firstly one has to do with the countless things that in general at a moment are unknown to all people.