Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance

TED · 1.4M views · 2013 · 18:34

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Argues that scientific progress comes from embracing ignorance and curiosity, not just following the scientific method.

Linked by 9 independent sites, 1 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including themarginalian.org, hormonesmatter.com, dashu.ai, georgestrakhov.com, lovefirst.net.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Stuart Firestein.