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How Ignorance Drives Science

Nov 10, 201319 min
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Episode description

Moe and Stuart discuss the importance of ignorance and how it drives science. Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science.
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