Arches Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

— George Bernard Shaw

Science is the topography of ignorance.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“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

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

— Richard Feynman

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

— Robert Kirshner

“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

There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.

— Sean M. Carroll

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

— David Eagleman

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself…

— Marilynne Robinson