Ignorance - Quotes
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don`t know anything about.
There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought [...] fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
It is better to live in ignorance than with knowledge. Solving the problem is the exciting part, not knowing the answer. Once a conjuring trick is explained it loses its magic. The excitement of a game of football is in not knowing who is going to be the winner. Some people have success and rest on their laurels. The lucky ones continue to live in ignorance.
It`s a mistake to think that in hard choices, one alternative really is better than the other, but we`re too stupid to know which, and since we don`t know which, we might as well take the least risky option. Even taking two alternatives side by side with full information, a choice can still be hard. Hard choices are hard not because of us or our ignorance; they`re hard because there is no best option.
Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We’re not afraid to admit what we don’t know. There’s no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (movie)
Kids who don`t eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
There is only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance.
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.