Ignorance Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

Science is the topography of ignorance.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

— Warren Weaver

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

“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

“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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert…

— Charles Darwin

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

— Richard Dawkins