Discovery Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest challenge to overcoming ignorance is the perception we know everything.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

— Frank Herbert

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

“The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge. This has hugely expanded…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari