Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein

Author:Stuart Firestein
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-22T14:00:00+00:00

Getting comfortable with ignorance is how a student becomes a scientist. How unfortunate that this transition is not available to the public at large, who are then left with the textbook view of science. While scientists use ignorance, consciously or unconsciously, in their daily activity, thinking about science from the perspective of ignorance can have an impact beyond the laboratory as well. Let me, in a final brief chapter, suggest how ignorance can also be useful in two areas of current concern and debate: public scientific literacy and education. My intention is only to make a few remarks on each of these topics in the hopes that the reader will be inspired to use the ignorance perspective to extend his or her own thoughts about these very public issues.

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