Celebrating Ignorance!

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Part of what we also have to train people to do is to learn to love the questions themselves. If all you want in life are answers, then science is not for you. We have things that always give you answers to things-like religion… In science, on the frontier, the answers haven't come yet. That's why we have people working on the frontier.

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge

Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

.. There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.