Discovery Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that…

— Joseph Priestley

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

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

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never…

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Frank Herbert

“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations.…

— Sri Aurobindo

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

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means…

— Claude Bernard

“The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas