Comments on: Celebrating ignorance: Stuart Firestein at TED2013 http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/celebrating-ignorance-stuart-firestein-at-ted2013/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Sat, 25 May 2013 21:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Three TED speakers have been named Guggenheim Fellows | Krantenkoppen Tech http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/celebrating-ignorance-stuart-firestein-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-36384 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:30:40 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70302#comment-36384 [...] Stuart Firestein, the chair of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, opened his TED2013 talk with a puzzling proverb: “It’s very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when there is no cat.” Named a 2013 Fellow in Natural Sciences, read all about his talk in celebration of ignorance » [...]

]]> By: Three TED speakers have been named Guggenheim Fellows | H Tanalepy http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/celebrating-ignorance-stuart-firestein-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-36383 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:17:01 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70302#comment-36383 [...] Stuart Firestein, the chair of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, opened his TED2013 talk with a puzzling proverb: “It’s very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially when there is no cat.” Named a 2013 Fellow in Natural Sciences, read all about his talk in celebration of ignorance » [...]

]]> By: TED Talk Gathering http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/celebrating-ignorance-stuart-firestein-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-35175 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:50:25 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70302#comment-35175 [...] event. After getting situated with our iced tea and popcorn, we started watching the first talk, Celebrating Ignorance by Stuart Firestein, Chair of the Biological Sciences at Columbia University. The speaker had some very innovative [...]

]]> By: John Beebe http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/celebrating-ignorance-stuart-firestein-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-31446 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:46:35 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70302#comment-31446 Just saw this wonderful talk. Classic and wonderful TED.

An interesting question is how knowledge is created on the web. A small example is the quote that ends the talk attributed to W.B. Yeats – “Education is not filling buckets; it is lighting fires.”

While it is very difficult to prove a negative (especially about an event that may or may not have taken place over 100 years ago). I have been unable to find any original source for this quote.

Another question than – Did Yeats actually say this quote that is now attributed to him?

Cheers

]]> By: Wizmo Blog » Blog Archive » Celebrating ignorance: Stuart Firestein at TED2013 http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/26/celebrating-ignorance-stuart-firestein-at-ted2013/comment-page-1/#comment-31302 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:27:14 +0000 http://blog.ted.com/?p=70302#comment-31302 [...] Celebrating ignorance: Stuart Firestein at TED2013 [...]

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