But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, “Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board.” It’s as though we’re sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks—masters of the universe—and suddenly say, “Oops, somebody discovered something!”
No. We’re always at the drawing board. If you’re not at the drawing board, you’re not making discoveries. You’re not a scientist; you’re something else. The public, on the other hand, seems to demand conclusive explanations as they leap without hesitation from statements of abject ignorance to statements of absolute certainty.
Tag: science ignorance scientists discoveries drawing-conclusions
Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Tag: knowledge nostalgia youth childhood ignorance
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
Gregory MaguireTag: innocence philosophy children hope ignorance wicked witch dorothy
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
Terry PratchettTag: ignorance
Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.
Eoin ColferTag: ignorance observations
Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made for me, that would shatter the foundations of my very existence. I would see that I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive. For a long time I wouldn’t be ready to accept that my worldview could be wrong, but I do not look back with shame at my ignorance.
Deborah FeldmanTag: learning religion childhood ignorance
I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.
Pamela Andersonنحن نلتقي بالناس و لا ندري ان وجوههم مثل لحاء شجر قديم حفر الزمن عليه القصص الكثيرة , ونحن؟ نقرأ القصه الوحيده التي نراها امامنا في الوجه..بغداد مالبورو
نجم واليTag: people ignorance wisdom-knowledge-ignorance
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
B.F. SkinnerTag: ignorance
The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
Joseph BoydenTag: wisdom knowledge war ignorance
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