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Stuart Firestein, Author of ‘Ignorance,’ Says Not Knowing Is the Key to Science

The joy of not knowing, of learning by learning that you were wrong, is one of the chief joys—and one of the great benefits—of science, Stuart Firestein, author of Ignorance, explains in an interview with Casey Schwartz.

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