Discovery Quote by Horace Walpole

How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller…

— James A. Garfield

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

— Nigel Kneale

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Galileo discovered new stars and moons, and later astronomers discovered new planets. All this would pale in the face of the discovery of new…

— Lee Smolin

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees…

— Richard P. Feynman

“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

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel J Boorstin