Scientists don’t concentrate on what they know […] but rather on what they don’t know. Science traffics in ignorance, cultivates it, and is driven by it. Mucking about in the unknown is an adventure; doing it for a living is something most scientists consider a privilege.

Stuart Firestein, Neurobiologe und Chairman des Department of Biological Sciences an der Columbia University, in seinem Buch “Ignorance: How It Drives Science“