ignorabimus

We do not know whether the "ignorabimus" of some of the scientists will hold, or whether we shall be able to think everything in terms of energy.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

The closing word of the discourse, "ignorabimus," was translated as a present, and this "ignoramus" taken to mean that "we know nothing at all"; or, even worse, that "we can never come to clearness about anything, and any further talk about the matter is idle."

Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

The famous "ignorabimus" address remains certainly an important rhetorical work of art; it is a "beautiful sermon," characterised by its highly-finished form and its surprising variety of philosophico-scientific pictures.

Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

Your victory serves as a shining refutation of the ancient dictum, ignoramus - ignorabimus, we do not know and we shall never know.

Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 - Presentation Speech 1967

Our position as regards them will always be _ignoramus et ignorabimus_ -- we do not know the solutions and we never shall know them.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

DuBois-Reymond, answer the question as to the explanation of the origin of sensation with an "_ignoramus_"; indeed, we shall take a surer road with his "_ignorabimus_" than by a plunge into that bottomless ocean of hypotheses -- in spite of the protest of Häckel, who (Anthrop., page XXI) sees that scientist who has the courage to admit the limits of our knowledge, on account of this "_ignorabimus_", walking in the army of the

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

It could be maintained only on the hypothesis "ignoramus et ignorabimus", that is that the end of scientific investigation is not the discovery of truth, but merely the seeking after truth without ever finding it.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

And this is why an interminable string of notes of interrogation serves as the decorative motive of this new science, which might be more appropriately styled: _ignorabimus_.

Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

"Leipsic ignorabimus-speech" of Du Bois-Reymond has for twenty years been prized as a defence by all representatives of the mythological view of the world, and extolled as a refutation of "monistic dogma."

Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

If we neglect -- in a mathematical sense -- those who adopt the agnostic attitude; content themselves with the formula _ignoramus et ignorabimus_ of Du Bois Reymond, and confine their investigations to the machine as a going machine without inquiring how it came to be a machine or what set it to work, we shall, I think, find that most people who have really thought out the question admit that the only reasonable explanation of things as they are, is the postulation of a Free First

Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893