364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure
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Episode: 364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure
Pub date: 2026-08-17
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One of the paradoxes of science is that it seeks objectively true understanding of the world, but its methodology is driven by ignorance, failure, and uncertainty. Some phenomena we understand pretty well, but interesting research happens at the boundary of what we do and…
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