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Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance

Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance

TED Education

October 1, 201318m 33s

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Show Notes

What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like "farting around … in the dark." In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don’t know -- or “high-quality ignorance” -- just as much as what we know. A video of this talk