Unquote | Futility Closet. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” — G.K. Chesterton, “On Running After One’s Hat,” 1908
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nescience n. ignorance; lack of knowledge agnoiology n. the study of ignorance In 1927, Hungarian physiologist Albert Szent-Györgyi isolated a substance in lemons and oranges that seemed to prevent scurvy. He couldn’t identify it chemically, so he called it “ignose,” meaning “I do not know.” When the editors of the Biochemical Journal asked for a…