I mean a kind of ignorance that's less pejorative, a kind of ignorance that comes from a communal gap in our knowledge, something that's just not there to be known or isn't known well enough yet or we can't make predictions from, the kind of ignorance that's maybe best summed up in a statement by James Clerk Maxwell, perhaps the greatest physicist between Newton and Einstein, who said, "Thoroughly conscious ignorance
我所说的无知可没那么多贬义。 我所说的无知是说我们在知识上共同的差距。 一些我们还没有了解的东西 或者了解得还不够得东西，或者我们无法预知的东西。 这种无知在 詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦发表的声明中有最好的诠释： 也许是最伟大的物理学家牛顿或者爱因斯坦 说过，"完全自觉自醒的无知