4 Quotes & Sayings By Stuart Firestein

Stuart Firestein is a psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. He is also the series editor for the Penguin History of the Human Brain, which was published in 2008. Firestein's 2013 book "The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself" was on the New York Times best seller list for 13 weeks. In 2015, he collaborated with his wife, Anna, on a book called "The Evolution of Desire."

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Persistence in the face of failure is of course important, but it is not the same thing as dedication or passion. Persistence is a discipline that you learn; devotion is a dedication you can't ignore. Stuart Firestein
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Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around. Stuart Firestein
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In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The one big fact is that science traffics in ignorance, cultivates it, and is driven by it. Stuart Firestein