
In "Ignorance," Stuart Firestein brilliantly flips science on its head, revealing how what we don't know drives discovery more than facts. Nobel laureate David Gross endorses this counterintuitive premise that's revolutionizing classrooms worldwide. What crucial questions aren't you asking yet?
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Here's a puzzle: why would a neuroscience professor at Columbia University create a course called "Ignorance"? And why would leading scientists eagerly accept invitations to discuss not their groundbreaking discoveries, but what they *don't* know? The answer challenges everything we've been taught about science. We imagine it as a grand accumulation of facts, a 500-year march toward certainty. But real science operates differently-scientists spend their days groping through dark rooms, searching for light switches that might not exist. The most valuable currency in research isn't knowledge; it's high-quality ignorance. As physicist James Clerk Maxwell understood, "thoroughly conscious ignorance" precedes every genuine advance. This counterintuitive truth reveals why the expanding frontier of what we don't know matters far more than our settled collection of facts.
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