“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
Words of wisdom from legendary physicist James Clerk Maxwell, quoted by Columbia’s Stuart Firestein in his Secret Science Club talk about his impossibly brilliant book Ignorance: How It Fuels Science.
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