Ignorance : 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. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done....
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- A short view of ignorance
- Finding out
- Limits, uncertainty, impossibility, and other minor problems
- Unpredicting
- The quality of ignorance
- You and ignorance
- Case histories.