The more familiar the parts, the more striking the new whole. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Statistics is like a bikini.
What they reveal is suggestive. What they conceal is vital. Real is what can be measured. I have so completely forgotten what I have myself published, that in reading my own writings, what I find in them often appears perfectly new to me, and I have more than once made experiments, the results of which have been published by me. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.