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In 1911, virologist Peyton Rous discovered the Rous sarcoma virus, which he concluded could transmit cancer in chickens.

Payton Rous conducted the studies that led to the discover of the Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV) in 1909.

In modern Wit all printed Trash, is Set off with num'rous Breaks⸺and Dashes— ― Swift, Jonathan (1733).

Let me quote from wikipedia: In modern Wit all printed Trash, is Set off with num'rous Breaks⸺and Dashes— This is probably why they mostly stopped appearing after the 1700s...

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

It seems at least the more even-keeled Minds become Hubs or GSVs, and the more crazy ones become ROUs, but what about the Minds that are too psychotic to be entrusted to the safety of pan-humans?

I'll spare you the details, but I worked on it from 4am to 7am every day, mostly thanks to the wond'rous benefits of Modafinil, after which I would take a one hour nap and then go to work.

Which is exactly why I love this stanza from Pope's Essay on Criticism[0]: A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

What you and parent poster are saying was nicely illustrated by Alexander Pope in his Essay on Criticism: A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Ploughing isn’t quite mowing, of course, but the great Rabbie Burns tilled the same furrow in To A Mouse: On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!

Na should be "not." Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!

"A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring".

As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science, it was popularized by a couplet in Alexander Pope's 1711 poem An Essay on Criticism: "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

There's a similar passage from Pope's "An Essay on Criticism that I'm particularly fond of and I think illustrates the kind of hubris the OP was suffering from: A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

There was a chicken breeder who noticed that some of his birds were getting tumors and he brought them to Rous, who exposed healthy bird cells to an extract of the tumor.