When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant.…

Richard P. Feynman
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When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt. ✨ Richard P. Feynman (2011). What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company
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