Ignorance Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery that launched…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.”

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered…

— Alan F. Chalmers

“Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody…

— Mark Christensen

“The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences,…

— Baha'u'llah

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

— Herbert Butterfield