Back لا نعرف ولن نعرف Arabic Ignoramus et ignorabimus Azerbaijani Ignoramus et ignorabimus Czech Ignoramus et ignorabimus German Ignoramus et ignorabimus Spanish نمیدانیم و نخواهیم دانست Persian Ignoramus et ignorabimus Finnish Ignorabimus French Ignoramus et ignorabimus Italian 我々は知らない、知ることはないだろう Japanese
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]
- ^ du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1912). du Bois-Reymond, Estelle (ed.). Reden. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Veit. pp. 441–473.