“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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Stephen HawkingI have used the concept of ‘Rumsfeldian Space’ — the unknown unknowns — in many of my presentations and workshops. It’s about the exploratory nature of testing and innovation — and exploiting all the continually branching outcomes of your decisions, towards those that select higher quality areas of ignorance!I keep returning to this area — to ask good questions in research, to explore uncomfortable or seemingly counter intuitive future directions or to test them and explore them before commitment.So when I heard This BBC Programme, it was very interesting — about ‘not knowing’ — ignorance and how it drives science and exploration of the unknown.This quotation, from Professor of Biology at Columbia University, Stuart Firestein, is absolutely brilliant, and worth 2 minutes of your time:“We all (...)
