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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.