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title: "8 Scientific Ignorance Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/god-is-an-ever-receding-pocket-of-scientific-ignorance/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-agre/our-single-greatest-defense-against-scientific-ignorance-is-education/)

[Peter Agre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-agre/)

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> [“If that's how you want invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/if-that-s-how-you-want-invoke-your-evidence-for-god-then-god-is-an/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/does-it-mean-if-you-don-t-understand-something-and-the-community-of/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlo-rovelli/listening-a-cultivated-person-of-today-that-jokes-and-almost-boasts/)

[Carlo Rovelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlo-rovelli/)

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> [The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-p-harrison/the-key-point-some-christians-miss-is-that-scientific-ignorance-about/)

[Guy P. Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-p-harrison/)

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> [Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-agre/lack-of-scientific-fundamentals-causes-people-to-make-foolish/)

[Peter Agre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-agre/)

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> [God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/god-is-an-ever-receding-pocket-of-scientific-ignorance-that-s-getting/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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