"I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance." ― David Eagleman Topic(s): Science More From David Eagleman "My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years." "I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around." "There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science." More In Science "In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science."― Mike Johanns "A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."― Jean Rostand "Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction."― John Boyd Orr