[url=/clipmark/C35E550C-04B2-458C-B272-4C065D999803/]"it is of paramount importance, in order to make progress, that we recognize this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have the doubt, we then propose looking in new directions for new ideas. The rate of the development of science is not the rate at which you make observations alone but, much more important, the rate at which you create new things to test.
If we were not able or did not desire to look in any new direction, if
we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any
new ideas. There would be nothing worth checking, because we would ...

"it is of paramount importance, in order to make progress, that we recognize this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have the doubt, we then propose looking in new directions for new ideas. The rate of the development of science is not the rate at which you make observations alone but, much more important, the rate at which you create new things to test.
If we were not able or did not desire to look in any new direction, if
we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any
new ideas. There would be nothing worth checking, because we would know
what is true. So what we call scientific knowledge today is a body of
statements of varying degrees of certainty. Some of them are most
unsure; some of them are nearly sure; but none is absolutely certain.
Scientists are used to this. We know that it is consistent to be able to live and not know. "