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nescience

literary, reading futility closet, nescience, science, scurvy, vitamin c

In a Word | Futility Closet

July 3, 2012

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…

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