Ignoramus et ignorabimus

Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), promulgator of the maxim ignoramus et ignorabimus. (Photogravure of a painting by Max Koner.)

The Latin maxim ignoramus et ignorabimus, meaning "we do not know and will not know", represents the idea that scientific knowledge is limited. It was popularized by Emil du Bois-Reymond, a German physiologist, in his 1872 address "Über die Grenzen des Naturerkennens" ("The Limits of Science").[1]

  1. ^ du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1912). du Bois-Reymond, Estelle (ed.). Reden. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Veit. pp. 441–473.

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