Science and ignorance

There is new book which captures essential nature of science. “Ignorance” by Stuart Firestein proposes that it is not the certainty that drives science but uncertainty. Facts are not drivers of science. It is the mystery, suspense that drives science. The reason science is exciting is this eternal incompleteness of science. As knowledge increases , ignorance also increases but in greater proportion. Science will never be finished. Universe is like onion that yields layers upon layers of knowledge.

General public thinks that science is like authority which pronounces on the truth of the universe. But science knows its limitations  and is a essentially humble enterprise. Science is like a game in which endless records are being created. Fun lies in playing the game rather than  win or loss. Riddles  continue to unfold at the frontiers of knowledge.