ignorance (theory of knowledge)

"[The author]draws on his research into public perception across more than forty countries, offering a sweeping account of the stubborn problem of human delusion: how society breeds it, why it will never go away, and what our misperceptions say about what we really believe"--Amazon.

Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.