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The pursuit of ignorance

Stuart Firestein · TED

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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.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2013
Speaker
Stuart Firestein
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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