Listening to a cultivated person of today who jokes and almost boasts of his scientific ignorance is as sad as listening to a scientist who boasts of not having read any poem.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Listening to a cultivated person of today who jokes and almost boasts of his scientific ignorance is as sad as listening to a scientist who boasts of not having read any poem." in the context of "Il Sole 24 Ore cultural supplement, October 17, 2010." to mean that wisdom is timeless.